2. To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
It is many times hard to discern to which of the two
sorts, the good or the bad, a man ought to be
aggregated. --Wollaston.
3. To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating
five hundred bushels. [Colloq.]
Syn: To heap up; accumulate; pile; collect.
The aggregate testimony of many hundreds. --Sir T.
Browne.
2. (Anat.) Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as,
aggregate glands.
3. (Bot.) Composed of several florets within a common
involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed
from one flower, as in the raspberry.
4. (Min. & Geol.) Having the several component parts adherent
to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by
mechanical means.
5. (Zo["o]l.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of
certain compound animals.
{Corporation aggregate}. (Law) See under {Corporation}.
Note: In an aggregate the particulars are less intimately
mixed than in a compound.
2. (Physics) A mass formed by the union of homogeneous
particles; -- in distinction from a {compound}, formed by
the union of heterogeneous particles.
{In the aggregate}, collectively; together.