aggregateIn general, to aggregate (verb, from Latin aggregare meaning to add to) is to collect things together. An aggregate (adjective) thing is a collection of other things. An aggregation is a collection. In information technology, individual items of data are sometimes aggregated into a database. Unlike marshalling , aggregation doesn't require giving one thing precedence over another thing. The noun has special meanings in geology and in building construction.
|
|
|
| This word suggested by: Gonzalo Salvador | | Last updated on:
Sep 21, 2005 |
|
Get the 
Follow us on 
