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Aggregated

Aggregate \Ag"gre*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aggregated; p. pr. & vb. n. Aggregating.] [L. aggregatus, p. p. of aggregare to lead to a flock or herd; ad + gregare to collect into a flock, grex flock, herd. See Gregarious.]

  1. To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. ``The aggregated soil.''
    --Milton.

  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.

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aggregated

vb. (en-past of: aggregate)

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aggregated

adj. gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole; "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness" [syn: aggregate, aggregative, mass]

Usage examples of "aggregated".

After a leaf had been left in a weak infusion of raw meat for 10 hours, the cells of the papillae had evidently absorbed animal matter, for instead of limpid fluid they now contained small aggregated masses of protoplasm, which slowly and incessantly changed their forms.

Structure of the leaves--Sensitiveness of the filaments--Rapid movement of the lobes caused by irritation of the filaments--Glands, their power of secretion--Slow movement caused by the absorption of animal matter--Evidence of absorption from the aggregated condition of the glands--Digestive power of the secretion--Action of chloroform, ether, and hydrocyanic acid--The manner in which insects are captured--Use of the marginal spikes--Kinds of insects captured--The transmission of the motor impulse and mechanism of the movements--Reexpansion of the lobes.

A similar result followed from an immersion of only 15 minutes in a solution of one part of carbonate of ammonia to 218 of water, and the adjoining cells of the tentacles, on which the papillae were seated, now likewise contained aggregated masses of protoplasm.

The little masses of aggregated matter are of the most diversified shapes, often spherical or oval, sometimes much elongated, or quite irregular with thread or necklacelike or clubformed projections.

Diagram of the same cell of a tentacle, showing the various forms successively assumed by the aggregated masses of protoplasm.

Raw meat is too powerful a stimulant, and even small bits generally injure, and sometimes kill, the leaves to which they are given: the aggregated masses of protoplasm become dingy or almost colourless, and present an unusual granular appearance, as is likewise the case with leaves which have been immersed in a very strong solution of carbonate of ammonia.

A leaf placed in milk had the contents of its cells somewhat aggregated in 1 hr.

In old leaves, however, especially in those which have been several times in action, the protoplasm in the uppermost cells of the pedicels remains in a permanently more or less aggregated condition.

A leaf with aggregated masses, caused by its having been waved for 2 m.

We have seen that leaves immersed for some hours in dense solutions of sugar, gum, and starch, have the contents of their cells greatly aggregated, and are rendered more or less flaccid, with the tentacles irregularly contorted.

These leaves, after being left for four days in distilled water, became less flaccid, with their tentacles partially reexpanded, and the aggregated masses of protoplasm were partially redissolved.

The aggregated masses, however they may have been developed, incessantly change their forms and positions.

As soon as the tentacles fully reexpand, the aggregated masses are redissolved, and the cells become filled with homogeneous purple fluid, as they were at first.

A very strong solution of this salt and rather large bits of raw meat prevent the aggregated masses being well developed.

From these facts we may conclude that the protoplasmic fluid within a cell does not become aggregated unless it be in a living state, and only imperfectly if the cell has been injured.