aggregate meaning
EN
[ˈæɡrɪɡət] [ˈæɡrɪɡeɪt] 
US US WAggregate
- An aggregate is a collection of items that are gathered together to form a total quantity.
- Aggregate (composite), in materials science, a component of a composite material used to resist compressive stress
- Construction aggregate, materials used in construction, including sand, gravel, crushed stone, slag, or recycled crushed concrete
- In some Christian churches, a group of several canonical hours (offices) combined to form a single religious service
- In the social sciences, a gathering of people into a cluster or a crowd that do not form a true social group
- NounPLaggregatesSUF-gate
- A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.
- A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
- (mathematics, obsolete) A set (collection of objects).
- (music) The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
- (roofing) Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
- Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements, especially the gravel and sand added to concrete. (technical).
- (Buddhism) Any of the five attributes that constitute the sentient being.
- A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.
- VerbSGaggregatesPRaggregatingPT, PPaggregated
- (transitive) To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.
- The aggregated soil.
- (transitive) To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
- (transitive) To amount in the aggregate to.
- ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels.
- (transitive) To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.
- AdjectiveCOMmore aggregateSUPmost aggregate
- Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.
- Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.
- Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
- aggregate glands.
- (botany) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
- Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
- United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.
- Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Presynaptic proteins that promote vesicle release aggregate at active zones, forming the cytomatrix at the active zone (CAZ).
- The best-characterized yeast prionogenic proteins are Sup35 and Ure2p, which, in their aggregated state, form two cytosolic inheritable elements named PSI+ and URE3, respectively.
- Several classifiers are tested on the extracted features, the best method being metaclassifier bootstrap aggregating (Bagging) based on alternating decision trees (ADTree).
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of aggregate in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
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- en aggregates
- en aggregated
- en aggregately
- en aggregateness
- en aggregate fruit
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "aggregate" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.