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Aggregate and Cumulative Definitions

Aggregate

Constituting or amounting to a whole; total
Aggregate sales in that market.

Cumulative

Increasing or enlarging by successive addition.

Aggregate

(Botany) Crowded or massed into a dense cluster.

Cumulative

Acquired by or resulting from accumulation.

Aggregate

Composed of a mixture of minerals separable by mechanical means.
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Cumulative

Of or relating to interest or a dividend that is added to the next payment if not paid when due.

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).

Cumulative

Supporting the same point as earlier evidence
Cumulative evidence.

Aggregate

The mineral materials, such as sand or stone, used in making concrete.

Cumulative

Imposed with greater severity upon a repeat offender
Cumulative punishment.
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Aggregate

To gather into a mass, sum, or whole
Aggregated the donations into one bank account.

Cumulative

Following successively; consecutive
Cumulative sentences.

Aggregate

To amount to; total
Revenues will aggregate more than one million dollars.

Cumulative

Of or relating to the total observed frequency of data, or the probability of a random variable, that is less than or equal to a specified value.

Aggregate

To collect (content from different sources on the internet) into one webpage or newsreader.
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Cumulative

Of or relating to experimental error that increases in magnitude with each successive measurement.

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).

Cumulative

Incorporating all current and previous data up to the present or at the time of measuring or collating.

Aggregate

A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.

Cumulative

That is formed by an accumulation of successive additions.

Aggregate

A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.

Cumulative

(linguistics) Adding one statement to another.
Cumulative conjunctions like and, both…and and as well as

Aggregate

A set collection of objects.

Cumulative

That tends to accumulate.

Aggregate

(music) The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.

Cumulative

(finance) Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid.

Aggregate

(sports) The total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores.

Cumulative

(law) of evidence, witnesses, etc. Intended to illustrate an argument that has already been demonstrated excessively.
The state wants to bring in ten blood-spatter experts to testify. Your Honor, that is cumulative testimony.

Aggregate

(roofing) Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.

Cumulative

Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated.

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.

Cumulative

Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the statement proceeds.
The argument . . . is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative.

Aggregate

(Buddhism) Any of the five attributes that constitute the sentient being.

Cumulative

Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; - said of evidence.

Aggregate

A mechanical mixture of more than one phase.

Cumulative

Increasing by successive addition;
The benefits are cumulative
The eventual accumulative effect of these substances

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

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