aggregate

The word aggregate describes a whole or total amount of something. (adjective)

An example of the word aggregate would be to describe the total amount of cars sold by a sales team in one month.

In botanical terms, aggregate refers to a fruit or flower that has many similar parts or clusters that form it. (adjective)

An example of an aggregate fruit is the blackberry.

An aggregate is a complete amount. (noun)

An example of an aggregate would be the total number of students in all of one grade level.

To aggregate is to combine or mix together. (verb)

An example of aggregate is to mix ingredients for concrete together.

To aggregate is to add together. (verb)

An example of aggregate is to add individual amounts of candy bars sold to find the total.

Aggregate means “in total.” ()

An example of usage of the word aggregate as an idiom would be to say “In aggregate, we raised $1000 in funds by selling Girl Scout Cookies.”

See aggregate in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

gathered into, or considered as, a whole; total: the aggregate number of unemployed
Bot.
1. massed into a dense head or cluster, as a flower
2. formed of closely clustered carpels, as the raspberry
Geol. made up of a mixture of mineral fragments, crystals, or similar materials: an aggregate rock

noun

a group or mass of distinct things gathered into, or considered as, a total or whole
the sand or pebbles added to cement in making concrete or mortar
an aggregate rock

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See aggregate in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(ăgˈrĭ-gĭt)

adjective

noun

A total considered with reference to its constituent parts; a gross amount: “An empire is the aggregate of many states under one common head” (Edmund Burke).
The mineral materials, such as sand or stone, used in making concrete.

verb (-gātˌ) ag·gre·gat·ed, ag·gre·gat·ing, ag·gre·gates

verb, transitive