To aggregate is to collect many units into one. If you're writing a novel, you might create a character who is an aggregate of five or six real people.
Noun
the whole amount
Noun
a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together
Verb
gather in a mass, sum, or whole
Verb
amount in the aggregate to
Adjective S.
gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole; "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness"
Adjective S.
formed of separate units in a cluster; "raspberries are aggregate fruits"
v. t.
To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.
"The aggregated soil."
v. t.
To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
v. t.
To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads,
aggregating five hundred bushels.
a.
Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass
or sum; collective.
a.
Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate
glands.
a.
Composed of several florets within a common involucre,
as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in
the raspberry.
a.
Having the several component parts adherent to each
other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
a.
United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain
compound animals.
n.
A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house
is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.
n.
A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; --
in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous
particles.
Usage Examples
A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.
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Other Usage ExamplesScience means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.