Aggregate

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.

2. (Physics) A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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.

3. To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels. [Colloq.]

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.

2. (Anat.) Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands.

3. (Bot.) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.

4. (Min. & Geol.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.

5. (Zoöl.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.