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aggregate


Meanings
  • noun

    A collection of individual items or data organized for easy analysis or processing.

    - "The sales team aggregated data from various sources to identify trends."
    - "The financial analyst aggregated data from multiple accounts to create a total balance."

Antonyms

segregate
Synonyms

skandha , cluster
Variants
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aggregate , aggregately , aggregateness , aggregatenesses , aggregated , aggregates , aggregating , in the aggregate , monetary aggregate , monetary aggregates , on aggregate
Etymology
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From the Latin word 'aggregare', meaning 'to gather together'.


Trivia
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  1. Aggregate was first used in mathematics in the 16th century.

  2. The term 'aggregate' is also used in geology to describe a large mass of rock or sediment.

  3. Aggregate functions in SQL are used to perform calculations on data in a database.


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  1. Data: Aggregate is a type of data that is collected and organized for analysis or processing.

  2. Statistics: Aggregate is a concept used extensively in statistics to summarize and analyze data.

  3. Database: An aggregate in a database is a calculation or grouping of data.


Quotes
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  1. Their success at opening up new sources of supply, generating and servicing demand, and connecting new markets with the processing industries of the Amsterdam entrepôt seemed … to belie the axiom of an inelastic "aggregate" volume of world trade—a zero-sum competition.

    - Simon Schama,{it}The Embarrassment of Riches{/it},1988
  2. The mulberry looks a bit like a raspberry. But the raspberry (along with the other brambles, members of the genus Rubus, such as the blackberry) is an "aggregate" fruit generated by a single, if complex, flower.

    - Raymond Sokolov,{it}Natural History{/it},October 1986
  3. With Keynes, standard theory conceded that disequilibria might intrude upon the economy as a whole, but it held that these could be remedied by judicious stabilization of "aggregate" demand—that is, combined government and consumer purchasing power.

    - Robert Kuttner,{it}Atlantic{/it},February 1985
  4. There were to be thirty-seven playgrounds, twenty schools. There were to be a hundred and thirty-three miles of street, paved with an inch and a half of No. 2 macadam on an "aggregate" base.

    - Joan Didion,{it}New Yorker{/it},26 July 1993

Culture
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Aggregate has been used in various fields, including mathematics, statistics, and computer science. In mathematics, an aggregate is a set of numbers or data. In statistics, it refers to a summary of data, such as the mean, median, or mode. In computer science, an aggregate is a data structure used to store and manipulate data.

How to Memorize "aggregate"

  1. visualize

    - Visualize a container or box where individual items are collected and stored as an aggregate.

  2. associate

    - Associate the word 'aggregate' with the idea of collecting or gathering together.

  3. mnemonics

    - Create a mnemonic by remembering the phrase 'Gather Together' to help remember the meaning of aggregate.


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