Aggregate vs. Cumulative: What's the Difference?
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
