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Definition: Aggregation |
AggregationNoun1. Several things grouped together. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "aggregation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1686. (references) |
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Computing | Aggregation |
Chemistry | A term referring to the action of uniting homogeneous particles of soil into masses; the state of being aggregated. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | The adding together of a taxpayer's income from all sources in order to determine the applicable rate for tax purposes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The binding together of individual soil particles into larger, compound ones by e. g. organic matter, Fe hydroxides, or fungal hyphae. Source: European Union. (references) |
Labor | Combining index relatives from one level to the next higher level. The procedure for the International Price Program begins with the aggregation of item level relatives to weight group relatives. The weight group relatives are then aggregated to the classification group relatives. The classification group relatives are then aggregated to the stratum lower relatives which in turn are aggregated up the tree of stratum upper relatives to the All Import or All Export index level. (references) |
Statistics | A word used to denote the compounding of primary data into an aggregate, usually for the purpose of expressing them in a summary form. For example, national income and price index-numbers are aggregative, as contrasted with the income of an individual or the price of a single commodity. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In biology the term is applied to fish, birds and insects and describes a gathering of animals of the same size and body orientation, often cruising in the same direction. See schooling.
In object-oriented programming, aggregation is a special form of association.
See also traffic aggregation in telecommunications.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Aggregation."
Synonyms: AggregationSynonyms: accumulation (n), assemblage (n), collection (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Accumulation; (store); congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation, cumulation; glomeration, agglomeration; conglobation; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta;accumulation; (store); congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation, cumulation; glomeration, agglomeration; conglobation; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta; quantity; (greatness). |
Coherence | Noun: coherence, adherence, adhesion, adhesiveness; concretion accretion; conglutination, agglutination, agglomeration; aggregation; consolidation, set, cementation; sticking, soldering; Verb: connection; dependence. |
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 | Grouper spawning aggregation in healthy Oculina varicosa habitat. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Mixed school of surgeon fish, Ctenochaetus striogosus, surgeon fish, Acanthurus olivaceus, goatfish, Mulloidichthys samoensis (Weke), goatfish Parapeneus porphyreus (Kumu), yellow tang surgeon fish, Zebrasoma flavescens. This type of aggregation usually occurred on low visibility days. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
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 | Ante; plastic; clink; pile; piling; accumulation; aggregate; aggregation; amassment; assemblage; bank; barrel; buildup; chunk; collection; conglomeration; gob; great deal; hill; hoard; hunk; jumble; lump; mass; mound; oodles; pack; peck; pyramid; quantity. |
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Health | A common thread in neurodegenerative disorders is the abnormal aggregation of proteins in the brain. (references) | |
Members of this family help proteins fold properly and discourage improper folding and abnormal aggregation. (references) | ||
In the last year, researchers made significant advances in understanding abnormal protein aggregation in a number of these diseases. (references) | ||
Political Rights | Belarus | During the elections, provisions for early voting, mobile ballot boxes, vote counting, and the aggregation of results fell far short of minimum transparency requirements for independent verification. (references) |
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| "Aggregation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aggregation" is used about 244 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 244 | 19,120 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "aggregation": Cell Aggregation ♦ Erythrocyte Aggregation ♦ Platelet Aggregation ♦ Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors ♦ Receptor Aggregation ♦ state of aggregation. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "aggregation": platelet-aggregation. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "aggregation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pirg (bank, clamp, cumulus, drift, heap, heaps of, huddle, hump, jumble, mountain, pile, stack), grumbull (abatis, amassment, bank, batch, bevy, bunch, clamp, clump, cluster, collection, congeries, crowd, group, heap, jumble, mass, mob, mountain, pile, pile up, stack, stamp mill). (various references) | |
Arabic | مجموعة (aggregate, assemblage, association, band, battery, bloc, block, body, case, collection, combination, community, company, compilation, complex, gathering, group, list, pack, party, series, set, squad, suit, system, team, troop), تجميع (accumulation, assemblage, bank up, collecting, gathering, ingathering, parataxis), تجمع (assemblage, assemble, collect, concentrate, concourse, congregation, converge, convergence, flock, gather, gathering, get together, group, grouping, huddle, league, mass, muster, organization, pile up, pool, press, rally, reassemble). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съвкупност (aggregate), събиране (accumulation, addition, assemblage, assembly, casting, collection, convention, convergence, gathering, get together, levy, meet, meeting, muster, summation), струпване (agglomeration, amassment, cluster, concourse, congregation, crowding), общност (commonalty, communion, community, fraternity, intercommunity, public), маса (accumulation, body, bulk, concretion, crowd, gross, heap, heaps of, herd, lashings, lot, lump, mass, oodles, pack, regiment, ruck, scad, shoal, slathers, stack, swarm, table, volume, volumes). (various references) | |
Chinese | 族聚. (various references) | |
Czech | nahromadìní. (various references) | |
Danish | aggrering (agglomeration), aggregering (granulation), aggregatus, aggregation (agglomeration), sammensætning (composition, compounding, formation), sammenlaegning (combination), sammenlægning (agricultural consolidation, consolidation, consolidation of fragmented holdings, conveyancing, land consolidation, re-allocation of agricultural land holdings, re-allotment of land, regrouping of lands, reparcelation, reparcelling out of small holdings, transaction consolidation, transfer of ownership), kumulation (cumulation), beregning af en skatteyders samlede indkomst. (various references) | |
Dutch | aggregatie (aggregate). (various references) | |
Farsi | تجمع , تراکم (Aggregate, Compression, Congeries, Congestion, Density). (various references) | |
Finnish | aggregointi, aggregaatti (agglomeration, aggregate), aggregaatio (granulation), yhdistäminen (joining, piecing), ryhmitys (grouping), ryhmittyminen, kokonaistuloperiaate, kokonaistulon käyttämisen laskenta, keräytyminen. (various references) | |
French | agrégation. (various references) | |
German | Gruppierung (arrangement in groups, faction, group, grouping), Aggregation (agglomeration, granulation). (various references) | |
Greek | σύγκρισις (granulation), σύνολο (aggregate, ensemble, mass, sum, summation, total), συσσώρευση (accumulating, accumulation, agglomeration, amassment, conglomeration, cumulation, hoarding), συσσωμάτωσις (agglomeration, granulation), συσσωμάτωση (agglomeration, briquetting, clustering, flocculation), συνυπολογισμός, συνάθροιση (assemblage, concourse, congregation, gathering, muster, rally), συνδυασμός τιμολογίων (combination), πρόσμιγμα (adulterant), πρόσμιξη (additive, admixture, impurity, impurity atom), άθροισμα (cluster, sum, total). (various references) | |
Hungarian | halmaz (agglomeration, clump, concrete, conglomerate, conglomeration, pile, set), egyesülés (amalgamation, association, coalescence, fraternity, fusion, integration, junction, merger, reunion, union). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengumpulan (accumulation, aggregate). (various references) | |
Italian | aggregazione (agglomeration, clustering, granulation). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 集成 , 集合" . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅうせい (adjustment, all one's life, alteration, amendment, correction, lifelong, modification, retouching, revision, sound of the autumn wind, trait, update), しゅう"うたい. (various references) | |
Manx | co-hummid. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aggregationay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | agregação (congeries), aglomeração (cluster, crush, jam, megalopolis, turn-out). (various references) | |
Romanian | agregare, agregaţie, îngrãmãdealã (cluster, hustle). (various references) | |
Russian | скопление (accumulation, agglomerate, agglomeration, amassment, assemblage, concourse, congeries, conglomeration, cumulation, muster), агрегация, агрегат (aggregate, outfit, plant, unit). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | agregat, sakupljanje (grouping), masa mešavina. (various references) | |
Spanish | agregación (addition, granulation, joiningof one thing to another, junction, side-note). (various references) | |
Swedish | aggregation (agglomeration, granulation), sammanhopning, sammangyttring, hopande (accumulation). (various references) | |
Turkish | yığın (accumulation, agglomerate, agglomeration, bank, batch, budget, bulk, bundle, cartload, chunk, clamp, clump, collection, congeries, conglomerate, conglomeration, crowd, drove, flock, force, heap, Hill, huddle, lump, mass, mound, pack, Peck, pile, raft, slew, stack, swarm, tons, volume, wilderness), yığışım, toplanma (accumulation, agglomeration, assemblage, bee, build up, collection, coming together, concentration, concourse, congregation, congress, convention, gathering, getting together, grouping, muster, rally, rallying, reunion, rush), toplama (addition, agglomerate, agglomeration, casting-up, catchment, collecting, collection, concentration, congregation, convention, cull, gathering, gleanings, grouping, picking, rallying, roundup, summation), küme (aggregate, bank, clamp, cloud, clump, cluster, congeries, conglomerate, conglomeration, division, family, group, heap, league, mass, pile, stack, tuft), birleştirme (affiliation, assembling, combination, combining, fusion, incorporation, integration, joining, unification), bir araya gelme. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скупчення (accumulation, affluence, agglomerate, agglomeration, assemblage, cluster, collection, concourse, confluence, conflux, congeries, lodgement, lodgment, mass), складання (adjustment, applying, assemblage, assembling, doubling, drafting, stowage, typesetting), сила зчеплення, конгломерат (conglomerate), маса (army, body, bulk, congeries, mass, mountain), збирання (assemblage, canvass, collection, compilation, cumulation, gathering, levy, picking, plucking), агрегація, агрегат (aggregate, assembly, collectivity, outfit, rig). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự tập hợp (assemblage, congregation, muster), sự tụ tập khối tập hợp, sự kết hợp (association, combination, conjunction, linkage, union), khối kết tập (aggregate). (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "aggregation": aggregational, aggregations. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "aggregation": disaggregation, reaggregation. (additional references) | |
Words containing "aggregation": disaggregations, reaggregations. (additional references) | |
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"Aggregation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aggragation, aggregtion, aggrevation, agregation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "aggregation" (pronounced 'Ag`gre*ga"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-g-g-i-n-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: aragonite, retagging. | |
-3 letters: aerating, aeration, agiotage, garaging, garoting. | |
-4 letters: anagoge, anergia, gearing, genitor, gigaton, gorging, granita, granite, gratine, grating, ingrate, naggier, negator, orating, ragging, tagging, tanager, tangier, tearing, togging. | |
-5 letters: ageing, agnate, agorae, aigret, angora, antiar, aortae, argent, aroint, atoner, earing, eating, egging, eggnog, engirt, eringo, gaeing, gagger, gaging, gainer, gaiter, ganger, garage, garget. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-g-g-i-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: aggregations. | |
+2 letters: agglomerating, aggregational, reaggregation. | |
+3 letters: disaggregation, reaggregations. | |
+4 letters: disaggregations. | |
+5 letters: overexaggerating. | |
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