aggregate > define

The whole amount.
- synonyms: sum, total, totality
Material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster.
A sum total of many heterogenous things taken together.
- synonyms: congeries, conglomeration

Formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole.
- usage: "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness"
- synonyms: aggregated, aggregative, mass
Composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets.
- usage: "raspberries are aggregate fruits"

(v.t.) To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil.".
(v.t.) To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
(a.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
(a.) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
(a.) Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.
(a.) Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands.
(v.t.) To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels.
(a.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.
(n.) A mass, assemblage or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.
(n.) A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.

by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Any total (e. G., the gross national product; the sum of monthly sales).