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AGGREGATE

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The whole amount

Synonyms:

aggregate; sum; total; totality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("aggregate" is a kind of...):

unit; whole (an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity)

Derivation:

aggregate (gather in a mass, sum, or whole)

aggregate (amount in the aggregate to)

aggregate (formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A sum total of many heterogenous things taken together

Synonyms:

aggregate; congeries; conglomeration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("aggregate" is a kind of...):

sum; sum total; summation (the final aggregate)

Meronyms (members of "aggregate"):

plankton (the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water)

nekton (the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales)

Derivation:

aggregate (formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("aggregate" is a kind of...):

material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole

Example:

the aggregated amount of indebtedness

Synonyms:

aggregate; aggregated; aggregative; mass

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

collective (forming a whole or aggregate)

Derivation:

aggregate (the whole amount)

aggregate (a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets

Example:

raspberries are aggregate fruits

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

multiple (having or involving or consisting of more than one part or entity or individual)

Domain category:

botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)

 III. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gather in a mass, sum, or whole

Synonyms:

aggregate; combine

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "aggregate" is one way to...):

amalgamate; commix; mingle; mix; unify (to bring or combine together or with something else)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "aggregate"):

unitise; unitize (make into a unit)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

aggregate (the whole amount)

aggregative (formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole)

aggregator (a person who collects things)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Amount in the aggregate to

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "aggregate" is one way to...):

add up; amount; come (develop into)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

aggregate (the whole amount)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Viruses that are tropic for CXCR4 are generally syncytium forming, causing T cells to aggregate and be destroyed at a rapid rate.CXCR4 induces downstream signaling by several different pathways.

(CXCR4 Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Discrete aggregates of lymphoid white blood cells, some with germinal centers and surrounding fibrosis, commonly found around some colorectal adenocarcinomas in the absence of a clinical or pathological diagnosis of Crohn disease.

(Crohn Disease-Like Reaction, NCI Dictionary)

The determination of the amount of triglyceride aggregates present in a sample.

(Fat Droplet Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

It is the aggregated products of microtubules during mitosis where chromosomes line up prior to the segregation process.

(Microtubule Bundle, NCI Thesaurus)

Examination of these neurons in diseased tissue has revealed the presence of Lewy bodies, dense aggregates that include the protein alpha-synuclein.

(Parkinson's Disease Pathway BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

In between the pseudopapillae aggregates of neurocytes, large neurons, and ganglioid cells are present.

(Papillary Glioneuronal Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

DTPA may chelate metallic moieties of unbound, extracellular radioimmunotherapeutics, thereby aggregating radioimmunotherapeutics locally to higher concentrations, and improving tumor cell radiocytotoxicity, while sparing normal tissues from the radiocytotoxic effects.

(Pentetic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Morphologically, it is characterized by the presence of aggregates of basaloid cells infiltrating the dermis.

(Pilomatrical Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a potent platelet aggregating agent and inducer of systemic anaphylactic symptoms, including hypotension, thrombocytopenia, neutropenia, and bronchoconstriction.

(Platelet Activating Factor, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A measurement of the oval-shaped fat bodies, usually renal proximal tubular cells with lipid aggregates in the cytoplasm, in a biological specimen.

(Oval Fat Body Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)