Aggregation \Ag`gre*ga"tion\, n. [Cf. LL. aggregatio, F.
agr['e]gation.]
The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated;
collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars;
an aggregate.
[1913 Webster]
Each genus is made up by aggregation of species.
--Carpenter.
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A nation is not an idea only of local extent and
individual momentary aggregation, but . . . of
continuity, which extends in time as well as in
numbers, and in space. --Burke.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
aggregation
n 1: several things grouped together or considered as a whole
[syn: collection, accumulation, assemblage]
2: the act of gathering something together [syn: collection,
collecting, assembling]
WordNet (r) 2.0
120 Moby Thesaurus words for "aggregation":
Anschluss, accumulation, acervation, addition, affiliation,
agglomerate, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregate, agreement,
alliance, amalgamation, amassment, articulation, assemblage,
assembly, assimilation, association, backlog, blend, blending,
bond, bracketing, cabal, cartel, centralization, chunk, clustering,
coalescence, coalition, collection, colluvies, combination,
combine, combo, communication, company, composition, concatenation,
concourse, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, confluence,
congeries, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, conjugation,
conjunction, connection, consolidation, conspiracy, convergence,
copulation, coupling, crowd, cumulation, ecumenism, embodiment,
encompassment, enosis, federalization, federation, fusion,
gathering, glomeration, gob, group, hoard, hookup, hunk, inclusion,
incorporation, integration, intercommunication, intercourse,
interlinking, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, junta,
knotting, league, liaison, linkage, linking, lump, marriage, mass,
meeting, meld, melding, merger, merging, muster, package,
package deal, pairing, reserve, ruck, snowball, solidification,
splice, stockpile, symbiosis, syncretism, syndication, syneresis,
synthesis, tie, tie-in, tie-up, trove, unification, union, wad,
wedding, yoking
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
aggregation
A composition technique for building a new
object from one or more existing objects that support some
or all of the new object's required interfaces.
(1996-01-07)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
accumulation, assemblage, assembling, collecting, collection
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