AGGREGATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aggregate mean? 

• AGGREGATE (noun)
  The noun AGGREGATE has 3 senses:

1. the whole amount

2. material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster

3. a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together

  Familiarity information: AGGREGATE used as a noun is uncommon.

• AGGREGATE (adjective)
  The adjective AGGREGATE has 2 senses:

1. formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole

2. composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets

  Familiarity information: AGGREGATE used as an adjective is rare.

• AGGREGATE (verb)
  The verb AGGREGATE has 2 senses:

1. amount in the aggregate to

2. gather in a mass, sum, or whole

  Familiarity information: AGGREGATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGGREGATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The whole amount

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

aggregate; sum; total; totality

Hypernyms ("aggregate" is a kind of...):

unit; whole (an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity)

Derivation:

aggregate (gather in a mass, sum, or whole)

aggregate (amount in the aggregate to)

aggregate (formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("aggregate" is a kind of...):

material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A sum total of many heterogenous things taken together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

aggregate; congeries; conglomeration

Hypernyms ("aggregate" is a kind of...):

sum; sum total; summation (the final aggregate)

Meronyms (members of "aggregate"):

plankton (the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water)

nekton (the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales)

Derivation:

aggregate (formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole)

• AGGREGATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole

Synonyms:

aggregate; aggregated; aggregative; mass

Context example:

the aggregated amount of indebtedness

Similar:

collective (forming a whole or aggregate)

Derivation:

aggregate (the whole amount)

aggregate (a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets

Context example:

raspberries are aggregate fruits

Similar:

multiple (having or involving or consisting of more than one part or entity or individual)

Domain category:

botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)

• AGGREGATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they aggregate ... he / she / it aggregates
Past simple: aggregated   
Past participle: aggregated   
-ing form: aggregating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Amount in the aggregate to

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "aggregate" is one way to...):

add up; amount; come (develop into)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

aggregate (the whole amount)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Gather in a mass, sum, or whole

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

aggregate; combine

Hypernyms (to "aggregate" is one way to...):

amalgamate; commix; mingle; mix; unify (to bring or combine together or with something else)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "aggregate"):

unitise; unitize (make into a unit)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

aggregate (the whole amount)

aggregative (formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole)

aggregator (a person who collects things)

 Context examples 

The aggregates of the germ cells are separated by fibrous septa which contain inflammatory cells, mostly T-lymphocytes.

(Dysgerminoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A method for rapidly obtaining near-pure aggregates of epithelial cell populations.

(Epithelial Cell Aggregation and Separation, NCI Thesaurus)

A small aggregate of cells found in adipose tissues, particularly those attached to the colon where the architectural details of the lymph node cannot be identified with certainty under the microscope.

(Extramural Nodule, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon administration, eprodisate competitively binds to the glycosaminoglycan binding sites on serum amyloid A (SAA), which inhibits the formation of the glycosaminoglycan-amyloid fibril aggregate.

(Eprodisate Disodium, NCI Thesaurus)

Binding to tubulin, Dolastatin 10 inhibits microtubule assembly, resulting in the formation of tubulin aggregates and inhibition of mitosis.

(Dolastatin 10, NCI Thesaurus)

Cell part which consists of macromolecules aggregated into discrete structures in the protoplasm.

(Cytoplasmic Organelle, NCI Thesaurus)

She believed herself to feel too much of it in the aggregate for honesty or safety in particulars.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The large pigment cells of fish, amphibia, reptiles and many invertebrates which actively disperse and aggregate their pigment granules.

(Chromatophore, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

When C1 complex interacts with aggregates of IgG with antigen on a cell's surface, two C1-associated proteases, C1r and C1s, are activated.

(Classical Complement Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Upon platelet activation, PBP is proteolytically converted to beta thromboglobulin, a homotetramer released when platelets aggregate; CTAP-III is proteolytically converted to NAP2, a potent chemoattractant and activator of neutrophils.

(Connective Tissue-Activating Peptide III, NCI Thesaurus)