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

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.

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