n.
☞ In an aggregate the particulars are less intimately mixed than in a compound. [ 1913 Webster ]
In the aggregate,
v. t.
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. aggregatus, p. p. ]
The aggregate testimony of many hundreds. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
Corporation aggregate. (Law)
adv. Collectively; in mass. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. LL. aggregatio, F. agrégation. ] The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate. [ 1913 Webster ]
Each genus is made up by aggregation of species. Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ]
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. Fr. agrégatif. ]
n. One who aggregates. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To destroy the aggregation of; to separate into component parts, as an aggregate mass. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. désagrégation. ] The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts. [ 1913 Webster ]