aggregate

UK/ˈæɡ.ɹɪ.ɡət/US/ˈæɡ.ɹɪ.ɡət/

verbC14 meanings Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,783 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: aggregates, aggregated, aggregating

To aggregate is to gather separate things into one lump — separate figures into a single total, separate opinions into a single score. A site that aggregates headlines from thirty papers, a survey that aggregates ten thousand answers into one percentage.

The verb, the noun and the adjective share a spelling and split on the sound: you AG-ri-gate the numbers, and what you get is the AG-ri-gut. Football lives on it — a team goes through 3–2 on aggregate over two legs. On a building site, aggregate is the crushed stone, gravel and sand mixed with cement to make concrete, and there the word is plain workshop English rather than statistics. In aggregate means counted all together rather than one by one.

Definitions of aggregate

1verbaggregateTo gather separate items or figures together into one whole or one total.C1~5%
“The site aggregates prices from every airline into one list.”
synonyms: combine, collect
2nounsumA total formed by adding separate amounts together.C1~9%
“Their aggregate over the two matches was five goals.”
synonyms: total, sum
3adjectiveformedFormed by adding all the separate parts together.C1~68%
“The aggregate score decided which team went through.”
4nounrockCrushed stone, gravel or sand mixed with cement to make concrete.C1~18%
“The lorry tipped a load of aggregate beside the foundations.”

Shares are an estimate: a language model read 23 sentences found in the wild and placed 22 of them on a sense (1 were unclear) — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.

Phrases it lives in

in aggregate — counted all together rather than one by one
on aggregate — counting the scores of both matches added together

Also practised as

nounCrushed stone mixed into concrete.

Where it comes from

Latin aggregō meant to flock together: ad-, toward, plus gregō, to group, from grex, a flock. To aggregate was to drive scattered sheep into one field. The same flock stands behind gregarious and egregious, and New Latin aggregātum, an aggregate, handed English the noun.

Proto-Indo-European
*h₂ger-
New Latin
aggregātum — an aggregate
Middle English
aggregat — a sum, unit, complex, aggregate
English, today
aggregate

Built from

aggregō · Latin — to flock together
ad- · Latin — at, to, toward
gregō · Latin — to flock or group
grex · Latin — flock

From Middle English aggregat (“a sum, unit, complex, aggregate”), borrowed from New Latin aggregātum (“an aggregate”), substantivized from the nominative neuter singular of aggregātus, the perfect passive participle of aggregō (“to flock together”), from ad- (“at, to, toward”)) + gregō (“to flock or group”), from grex (“flock”) + -ō. See also egregious and gregarious. See also ag-.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Academic English

Practise this word

aggregate in the wild

Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bound together with a fluid cement that cures to a solid.
Concrete
The winning team is usually determined by aggregate score.
Two-legged tie
In some competitions, a tie is considered to be drawn if each team wins one leg, regardless of the aggregate score.
Two-legged tie
Aggregates are also used as base material under building foundations, roads and railroads (aggregate base).
Construction aggregate
Some companies have tied royalty payment rates and employee bonuses to aggregate scores, and stock prices have been seen to reflect ratings, as related to potential sales.
Review aggregator

1 / 5

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the grex family

congregate egregious aggregate

aggregate — used about once every 16,706 pages · #12,783 · point at the bar for the others

Definitions of aggregate

1verbaggregateTo gather separate items or figures together into one whole or one total.C1~5%

“The site aggregates prices from every airline into one list.”

synonyms: combine, collect

2nounsumA total formed by adding separate amounts together.C1~9%

“Their aggregate over the two matches was five goals.”

synonyms: total, sum

3adjectiveformedFormed by adding all the separate parts together.C1~68%

“The aggregate score decided which team went through.”

4nounrockCrushed stone, gravel or sand mixed with cement to make concrete.C1~18%

“The lorry tipped a load of aggregate beside the foundations.”

Shares are an estimate: a language model read 23 sentences found in the wild and placed 22 of them on a sense (1 were unclear) — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.