Constituting or amounting to a whole; total: aggregate sales in that market.
Botany Crowded or massed into a dense cluster.
Composed of a mixture of minerals separable by mechanical means.
A total considered with reference to its constituent parts; a gross amount: "An empire is the aggregate of many states under one common head” ( Edmund Burke).
The mineral materials, such as sand or stone, used in making concrete.
To gather into a mass, sum, or whole.
To amount to; total.
To come together or collect in a mass or whole: "Some [bacteria]aggregate so closely as to mimic a multicellular organism” ( Gina Kolata).
in the aggregate Taken into account as a whole: Unit sales for December amounted in the aggregate to 100,000.