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In 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.

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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 was last updated in September 2005
Contributor(s): Gonzalo Salvador
Posted by: Margaret Rouse

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