Hypertext Webster Gateway: "aggregation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Aggregation \Ag`gre*ga"tion\, n. [Cf. LL. aggregatio, F.
agr['e]gation.]
The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated;
collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars;
an aggregate.
Each genus is made up by aggregation of species.
--Carpenter.
A nation is not an idea only of local extent and
individual momentary aggregation, but . . . of
continuity, which extends in time as well as in
numbers, and in space. --Burke.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
aggregation
n : several things grouped together [syn: {collection}, {accumulation},
{assemblage}]
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