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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AGGREGA'TION, n.
1. The act of aggregating; the state of being collected into a sum or mass; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.
2. In chimistry, the affinity of aggregation, is the power which causes homogeneous bodies to tend towards each other, and to cohere; and from a mixture, which consists of parts dissimilar in their nature. The word is used of solid, fluid, or aeriform bodies.
3. The union and coherence of bodies of the same nature.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: several things grouped together or considered as a whole [syn: collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage]
2: the act of gathering something together [syn: collection, collecting, assembling, aggregation]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1547 1. a group, body, or mass composed of many distinct parts or individuals 2. a. the collecting of units or parts into a mass or whole b. the condition of being so collected • aggregational adjective

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. Each genus is made up by aggregation of species. --Carpenter. 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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Aggregating, act or process of collecting or combining or collocating. See aggregate, v. 2. Collection, mass, pile, heap, accumulation.

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