Aggregate vs. Agglomerate: What's the Difference?
Aggregate and Agglomerate Definitions
Aggregate
Constituting or amounting to a whole; total
Aggregate sales in that market.
Agglomerate
To form or collect into a rounded mass.
Aggregate
(Botany) Crowded or massed into a dense cluster.
Agglomerate
Gathered into a rounded mass.
Aggregate
Composed of a mixture of minerals separable by mechanical means.
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Agglomerate
A confused or jumbled mass; a heap.
Aggregate
A total considered with reference to its constituent parts; a gross amount
"An empire is the aggregate of many states under one common head" (Edmund Burke).
Agglomerate
A volcanic rock consisting of rounded and angular fragments fused together.
Aggregate
The mineral materials, such as sand or stone, used in making concrete.
Agglomerate
Collected into a ball, heap, or mass
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Aggregate
To gather into a mass, sum, or whole
Aggregated the donations into one bank account.
Agglomerate
A collection or mass.
Aggregate
To amount to; total
Revenues will aggregate more than one million dollars.
Agglomerate
A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; distinguished from conglomerate.
Aggregate
To collect (content from different sources on the internet) into one webpage or newsreader.
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Agglomerate
(meteorology) An ice cover of floe formed by the freezing together of various forms of ice.
Aggregate
To come together or collect in a mass or whole
"Some [bacteria]aggregate so closely as to mimic a multicellular organism" (Gina Kolata). "The first stars began to form when hydrogen and helium gas left over from the Big Bang aggregated into dense clouds" (Paul Davies).
Agglomerate
(ambitransitive) To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.
Aggregate
A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.
Agglomerate
To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.
Where he builds the agglomerated pile.
Aggregate
A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
Agglomerate
To collect in a mass.
Aggregate
A set collection of objects.
Agglomerate
Collected into a ball, heap, or mass.
Aggregate
(music) The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
Agglomerate
Collected into a rounded head of flowers.
Aggregate
(sports) The total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores.
Agglomerate
A collection or mass.
Aggregate
(roofing) Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
Agglomerate
A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; - distinguished from conglomerate.
Aggregate
Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements; especially the gravel and sand added to concrete.
Agglomerate
Form into one cluster
Aggregate
(Buddhism) Any of the five attributes that constitute the sentient being.
Agglomerate
Clustered together but not coherent;
An agglomerated flower head
Aggregate
A mechanical mixture of more than one phase.
Aggregate
Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.
Aggregate
Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.
Aggregate
Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
Aggregate glands
Aggregate
(botany) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
Aggregate
Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
Aggregate
United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.
Aggregate
(transitive) To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.
The aggregated soil.
Aggregate
To add or unite (e.g. a person), to an association.
Aggregate
(transitive) To amount in the aggregate to.
There are ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels.
Aggregate
To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil."
Aggregate
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.
Aggregate
To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels.
Aggregate
Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.
The aggregate testimony of many hundreds.
Aggregate
Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands.
Aggregate
Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
Aggregate
Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
Aggregate
United into a common organized mass; - said of certain compound animals.
Aggregate
A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.
Aggregate
A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; - in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
Aggregate
A sum total of many heterogenous things taken together
Aggregate
The whole amount
Aggregate
Amount in the aggregate to
Aggregate
Gather in a mass, sum, or whole
Aggregate
Gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole;
Aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year
The aggregated amount of indebtedness
Aggregate
Formed of separate units in a cluster;
Raspberries are aggregate fruits
