Definition of: aggregate

(ag′rə·gāt) v.t. ·gat·ed, ·gat·ing
1. To bring or gather together, as into a mass, sum, or body; collect; mass.
2. To amount to; form a total of. See synonyms under AMASS.
—adjective (ag′rə·git)
1. Collected into a sum, mass, or total; gathered into a whole; formed by collection; collective.
2. Bot. a Crowded close together in a dense cluster, as a flower head, b Formed of a coherent mass of drupelets, as a fruit.
3. Geol. Composed of distinct minerals separable by mechanical means, as granite.
—noun (ag′rə·git)
1. The entire number, sum, mass, or quantity of something; amount; total, collection.
2. Material for making concrete.
—in the aggregate
Collectively; as a whole. [<L aggregatus, pp. of aggregare, lit., bring to the flock < ad- to + gregare collect < grex flock]
—ag′gre·ga′tive adjective
—ag′gre·ga′ tor noun Synonyms (noun): agglomeration, aggregation, amount, collection, entirety, heap, mass, sum, total, totality, whole. An aggregate of financial items is an amount, sum, or total. An aggregate or aggregation of material objects is a collection, mass, or whole; an agglomeration is a heterogeneous mass. Collection points rather to the differences, mass to the unity. We say a collection of minerals, a mass of rock. The result of multiplication is a product, the result of addition a sum, total, or aggregate.