The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aggregate \Ag"gre*gate\, n.
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A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.
Note: In an aggregate the particulars are less intimately mixed than in a compound.
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(Physics) A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
In the aggregate, collectively; together.
Usage examples of "in the aggregate".
Surely this is so in the aggregate: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, George Wythe, George Mason, Edmund Randolph, and the Lee family of Virginia.
Rank upon rank of heavy, close-spaced buttons, containing, in the aggregate, enough brass to cast a swivel-gun.
Paul has three public libraries, and they contain, in the aggregate, some forty thousand books.
The state set me apart because in the aggregate the state, the people, if you will, know that given the freedom to work, I will work, and work for the sake of my work, because I am a monomaniac.
It was hard to focus on any particular chunk of it, but in the aggregate it glowed in a shifting random pattern.
Williams, the famous financial house, have been the guardians of securities which amount in the aggregate to a sum of considerably over a million sterling.
He was not sure whether he loved them in the aggregate or wanted to do them violence.
Each one of these expansions and rewrites came about in its own way, not because of any plan of mine, so I doubt they have any meaning in the aggregate.
The earth is covered with 'small crawling masses of impure carbohydrates' like Robin, referred to in the aggregate as humanity.