資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Aggregate \Ag"gre*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Aggregated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Aggregating}.] [L. aggregatus, p. p. of
aggregare to lead to a flock or herd; ad + gregare to collect
into a flock, grex flock, herd. See {Gregarious}.]
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.
It is many times hard to discern to which of the two
sorts, the good or the bad, a man ought to be
aggregated. --Wollaston.
3. To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating
five hundred bushels. [Colloq.]
Syn: To heap up; accumulate; pile; collect.