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aggregate (noun) – 1. A total considered with reference to its constituent parts; a gross amount.
2. The mineral materials, such as sand or stone, used in making concrete.
(adj) – 1. Constituting or amounting to a whole; total.
2. ()Botany Crowded or massed into a dense cluster.
3. Composed of a mixture of minerals separable by mechanical means.
(verb) – 1. To gather into a mass, sum, or whole.
2. To amount to; total.
3. To collect (content from different sources on the internet) into one webpage or newsreader.
Source : The Free Dictionary
Etymology : We added aggregate to our flock of Latin borrowings in the 15th century. It descends from aggreg?re (“to cause to flock together” or “to join together”), a Latin verb made up of the prefix ad- (which means “to,” and which usually changes to ag- before a g) and greg- or grex (meaning “flock, herd, or group”). Greg- also gave us congregate, gregarious, and segregate. Aggregate is commonly employed in the phrase “in the aggregate,” which means “considered as a whole.” Aggregate also has some specialized senses. For example, it is used to describe a mass of minerals formed into a rock, and materials like sand or gravel that are used to form concrete, mortar, or plaster.
