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单词 aggregate
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Definition of aggregate in English:

aggregate

noun ˈaɡrɪɡətˈæɡrɪɡət
  • 1A whole formed by combining several separate elements.

    总数,合计,集合

    the council was an aggregate of three regional assemblies

    该委员会由三个地区性机构组成。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The sinks are fabricated from a refined polyester resin composite containing a combination of natural and synthetic aggregates, the manufacturer says.
    • The pattern is seen first as aggregates to assemble in the mind, information acquired bit by bit, as in reality.
    • The goal of analyzing and interpreting data is to reduce the enormous amount of raw data that have been collected to a manageable aggregate.
    • According to Leibniz, the whole world is an aggregate of monads.
    • Space is also not an aggregate of its parts but presumably an essential whole preceding all it parts, a view motivated at least in part by theological considerations.
    • For neither in any one single thing, nor in the whole aggregate and series of things, can there be found the sufficient reason of existence.
    • Rather, economists argue that at the margin, the more costly it is to engage in an activity, the less it will be undertaken particularly when dealing with aggregates of separate actions.
    • The judges will still rank every performer, and that the aggregate of their ranking will be combined with the public vote to determine who goes and who stays every week.
    • Human organs are complex aggregates of cells and tissues, and it is possible that concentrations of trace elements vary among the various aggregates.
    • These objects remain largely as they have always been, an aggregate of separate dust grains and frozen water, loosely held together.
    • Because each record represented a separate loan, aggregates of multiple loans were matched with individual social security numbers.
    • Goffs broke all records for both turnover and average at its premier Orby and Challenge sales with the combined aggregate passing the £39 million barrier.
    • A culture is in reality an aggregate of individuals, not an abstract whole to be subdivided into groups, and Eliot was one hell of an individual.
    • Children, given the opportunity, will naturally assemble a personalized aggregate of intelligences needed to approach a learning situation.
    • Its perceptual configurations have been thought to have a special relevance to the emergence of formal artistic qualities which cannot be reduced to a measurable aggregate of more elementary constituents.
    • In fact, you do not find any ‘self,’ and so you come to know that neither the whole aggregate of form nor any part of it is the self.
    • What will be our relationship with the institutions that bundle aggregates of electronic journals for distribution to libraries?
    • Except as noted below, data on all cause and cause specific child and infant mortality and of age distribution of child and infant mortality were regional estimates or other aggregates.
    1. 1.1 The total score of a player or team in a fixture comprising more than one game or round.
      (多场或多回合比赛的)总积分
      he set the pace with a one-over-par aggregate of 151
      mass noun the result put the sides level on aggregate

      结果是双方积分持平。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • They had lost the first leg 5-1 and went behind early in the second leg before scoring eight goals to win 9-7 on aggregate with the whole team sharing the match award.
      • They beat a Lions side which barely put up a fight; this is the weakest Australian side for many years; and a Springboks side still in transition came very close indeed to beating them in New Zealand and won the two games on aggregate.
      • After finishing second to Bulgaria in their qualifying group, Croatia beat Slovenia 2-1 on aggregate in a Balkan play-off.
      • Surprisingly only finished second to Switzerland, before beating Wales 1-0 on aggregate in a nervy play-off.
      • The Hungarians equalised late in the game, and went through 4-2 on aggregate after a 3-1 home win a fortnight later.
      • The Dinamo Kiev striker scored the winner against Turkey in the play off first leg and then got the vital equaliser in Istanbul to level the scores on the night and put Latvia ahead on aggregate.
      • It was Nelson who took the title for the best aggregate gross score, although their 296 total was matched by Burnley and the host club.
      • Zesco who are yet to concede a goal earned the second round berth after eliminating PAS Mates 4-0 on aggregate.
      • With five minutes to go the score was 6-4 and the teams were level on aggregate.
      • Four minutes later, Singapore scored to level the tie on aggregate.
      • It was extra time and 2-2 on aggregate when they flashed a footballing épée, scored twice without making a sound and left Tony Adams and Co dazed and confused.
      • England did not enter in 1960, the first tournament and were beaten 6-3 on aggregate by France in the first round of the 1964 competition.
      • Interestingly, despite their team being 6-1 down on aggregate, Bayer Leverkusen's fans have not stopped singing and chanting since the match began.
      • Barcelona are now totally in charge, with the scores level on aggregate and two away-goals to their credit.
      • Indeed, the cynical may argue that in winning each of their last four games by less than a single score and an aggregate of a mere 14 points, Wharfedale are struggling at the top!
      • The win, their eighth in 10 matches this month, was worth three points as they tacked on the bonus for winning on aggregate over the home and away fixtures.
      • On their way to the 1991 African Cup Winners Cup triumph over BCC Lions of Nigeria, Power beat Rivatex 4-3 on aggregate in the first round.
      • After beating the Swedes 4-0 on aggregate, the team is now mixing with the powerhouse clubs in what looks like the strongest field ever assembled.
      • The burton and Milnthorpe clubs are separated only by the aggregate on completion of the first half of the season in the South Lakeland Rural League.
      • Freuberg won 4-0 to advance 4-2 on aggregate to the third round.
      Synonyms
      total, sum total, sum, whole amount, grand total, totality, entirety, summation, gross, result, final figure
  • 2A material or structure formed from a mass of fragments or particles loosely compacted together.

    集料聚合体

    the specimen is an aggregate of rock and mineral fragments
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Marcasite, when viewed in hand specimen, tends to form crudely banded masses or massive aggregates.
    • The fine sand and silt size fraction comprised decayed plant material, pollen, occasional chitin fragments, clay aggregates, diatoms and fine silicates.
    • The material inside the skull is an aggregate of clay-sized chloritic material and is a treasure trove of minerals.
    • Plus, they excrete sticky compounds that glue soil particles into aggregates, keeping the soil open and porous.
    • The crystals were yellow-brown aggregates of needle-shaped structures that simulated haystacks.
    • Malachite is also well known as loosely coherent aggregates and. as thin green films and stains.
    • If the platelets are not separated, it is unlikely that the shear forces generated during the compounding process will be sufficient to overcome the forces holding the aggregates together.
    • So I could infer the general composition of that… aggregate clump by the fireplace, but I'll be switched if I know its point of origin.
    • It encourages microorganism activity causing soil particles to clump together and form aggregates.
    • These actin nucleation sites lead to the formation of large aggregates due to charge shielding between actin monomers in the aggregate and monomers in the bulk.
    • Temper carbon - compact aggregates or nodules of graphite found in malleable iron as a result of heat treatment.
    • The stability of an aggregate will depend on the number of vesicles in the aggregate and on the energy per vesicle.
    • Underfoot irregular, pebbles lay like aggregate and chips of stone protruded from the compacted ground, as desiccated and brittle as human bone.
    • Soil particles are bound together into aggregates and these influence the precise pore structure of the soil.
    • Therefore, the stable structure of the aggregate is not needed to determine its mechanical properties.
    • Polysaccharides help form humus, which enables small clay or silt particles to stick together to form larger aggregates.
    • The simulations predict loose aggregates of particles with many branches in a complex network, like a portion of a spider's web.
    • According to Brownlee, the loose aggregate of particles seen on comets may represent the first generation of solids in the solar system.
    Synonyms
    collection, mass, cluster, lump, clump, pile, heap, bundle, quantity
    accumulation, build-up, agglomeration, concentration, assemblage
    mixture, mix, combination, blend, compound, alloy, amalgam, conjunction, synthesis, marriage
    miscellany, jumble, hotchpotch
    informal mixed bag
    1. 2.1mass noun Pieces of broken or crushed stone or gravel used to make concrete and in building.
      集料,混凝料,骨料
      use aggregate for the first layer when filling the trench
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Britain used to have a healthy stable of big concrete, aggregate and cement groups, from Blue Circle to Tarmac and RMC.
      • All these trucks turn up at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon with gravel and sand and aggregate, wanting to dump it.
      • Assuming that the concrete has good aggregate to begin with, enduring freezing and thawing is the primary durability issue.
      • When mixed with fine aggregate used in concrete, these cements reportedly achieve strengths up to 14,000 psi.
      • Brits also appear to have an long term fascination with types of paving surfaces, so you could find yourself tripping on stone, brick, aggregate, concrete, rock or blocks.
      • The funding was a result of a Government tax levied on every tonne of stone aggregate extracted from quarrying.
      • Aggregates are concrete and other materials sorted, crushed and mixed so as to form mixed aggregate in pieces of 70 mm, or less, in diameter.
      • He started work just after 8am and had been helping to unload stones and aggregate in large bags from a ship's hold.
      • Old concrete that has reached the end of its service life can be recycled and reused as aggregate for new concrete mixtures.
      • Dawnus provided machines to prepare the site and supplied concrete, aggregate, timber and manpower.
      • Stone tile, a relatively affordable alternative to stone, is made from real stone aggregate suspended in a polymer binder.
      • The panels, which are to be made of concrete and limestone aggregate, will create horizontal bands of shadows on the exterior.
      • The original structural system, including the roof, was entirely cast-in-place reinforced concrete using normal-weight aggregate.
      • The serene, cave-like space is defined by floors of smooth grey Italian stone and walls of ground faced concrete block with black aggregate and charcoal mortar.
      • The Guardian this week reported a plan to recruit 900 construction workers from Jamaica to fill a local shortage, and also a shortage of local aggregate to mix with cement in making concrete.
      • But recovered concrete can be crushed and used as road gravel or aggregate.
      • Pots were filled with building aggregate (referred to as ‘sand’) by hand and stones over about 1 cm in length were removed during pot filling.
      • A contract to rebuild a stretch of the A5087 on Rampside Road in Barrow is a pilot scheme in which recycled glass is mixed in with the stone aggregate normally used in the lower layers of the road.
      • Block/concrete brick are manufactured using Portland cement, aggregate, sand, and water.
      • Concrete marble aggregate is one of its key components with 57 white columns, each weighing 29 tonnes, forming the structure of the building.
adjective ˈaɡrɪɡət
  • 1attributive Formed or calculated by the combination of several separate elements; total.

    总计的,合计的

    the aggregate amount of grants made

    总计捐赠。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The issue was for an aggregate amount of Rs 100 crore and was rated ‘AAA’ by Crisil.
    • The aggregate amount of loans also picked up drastically, from 7.3 billion leva to 11.1 billion leva.
    • We think you will agree therefore that the test is whether the aggregate amount of rent payable during the year commencing 12 April 1983 exceeded two thirds of the rateable value of the property on that date.
    • The only limit which it imposes is not upon the court's assessment of the damages but upon the aggregate amount that the plaintiff can recover by execution under any of the judgments.
    • Their parting present to SE was to increase the aggregate amount which it could legally have outstanding from £2bn to £3bn.
    • Why not, in addition to accelerating the promised development assistance, increase the aggregate amount of aid by the next summit in 2003?
    • Registering trustees are required to report the aggregate amount of funds under supervision and the names of the trusts.
    • From the aggregate data, we calculated the overall rates of frequencies of patient identification and vital sign monitoring.
    • The aggregate amount of these claims, calculated as at July 31, 1992 was approximately $5,165,000.
    • Satanjib Dutta of Cotton College has topped the final list this year, with letter marks in six subjects and total aggregate marks of 439.
    • This aggregate amount represents an increase of 25 per cent in Commonwealth Government funding to those three categories of schools.
    • He asked them to determine whether there were any separate or aggregate health issues that would mean General Pinochet was unfit to stand trial in Spain.
    • Of course this is not all bad; among other things, it will greatly increase variety, the aggregate amount of information, and the entertainment value of actual choices.
    • The aggregate amount of the assessed tax was £1, 245, 545 plus interest.
    • For the whole period, the 47 transactions had an aggregate transaction amount, in Canadian dollars, of $3,986, 351.
    • Nevertheless, the results suggest that it would be of biotechnological interest to separate the aggregate subclasses and use the lower complexity aggregates in refolding protocols.
    • Your children may receive an aggregate amount of gifts and inheritances to the value of 456,438 from their parents, free from Irish tax.
    • Frisvold, Tronstad, and Mortensen use a different modeling approach to calculate aggregate welfare changes from the introduction of Bt cotton in the same period.
    • The payment period is for 25 years, or when the aggregate amount has been collected, whichever comes first.
    • The ATL companies would pay an aggregate amount of £7.5 million to various BTL company creditors.
    Synonyms
    total, combined, whole, gross, accumulated, added, entire, complete, full, comprehensive, overall, composite
    1. 1.1Botany (of a group of species) comprising several very similar species formerly regarded as a single species.
      〔植〕(种群)聚生的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Dandelions are so hard to identify that many botanists will record them as the aggregate.
      • In the case of the Poa secunda aggregate, to recognize 45 "small species" is unrealistic.
      • If treated as a variety of the aggregate species D. intermedia, the New Zealand plant must bear the varietal name of norfolkensis, whether it occurs elsewhere or not.
      • Some chromosomal variation is evident in the New Zealand members of the K. ericoides complex, which helps to support the recognition of additional taxa within this aggregate species.
      • Rifai (1969) adopted the concept of ‘aggregate’ species, and distinguished nine ‘species aggregates’, and admitted that some of them (particularly T. hamatum) likely contain two or more morphologically indistinguishable species.
    2. 1.2Economics Denoting the total supply or demand for goods and services in an economy at a particular time.
      〔经济〕总量的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The notion that economies, as a whole, sometimes lack sufficient drive derives from a faulty set of economic doctrines that focus on the demand side of the aggregate economy.
      • For all of their conceptual and measurement problems, economic aggregate measures are the best means we have for understanding the economy.
      • For this reason, other economists, such as the authors of the UN Human Development Report, routinely exclude China from aggregate data covering developing nations.
      • Sichel, however, shows that even the growing share of the service sector is not enough to substantially raise measurement errors for the aggregate economy.
      • What we have mostly, to this day, are single-market analyses, or aggregate models of the entire economy, such as the monetary models used today
      Synonyms
      total, whole, entire, complete, full, overall, comprehensive
verb ˈaɡrɪɡeɪtˈæɡrəˌɡeɪt
  • 1Form or group into a class or cluster.

    集合,聚集

    with object socio-occupational groups aggregate men sharing similar kinds of occupation

    社会职业群体集合了从事相似职业的人。

    no object the butterflies aggregate in dense groups
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He appears convincing by aggregating voluminous references without subjecting himself to the rigours of the scientific process.
    • Markets have consistently beat the alternatives at aggregating information.
    • Of course democracy can be seen as a mechanism for aggregating diverse views about both facts and values; and Habermas offers a distinctive account of democracy.
    • Blackbirds seem to maximize that benefit by aggregating their nests in dense colonies.
    • While the Command Post was about aggregating information, Strengthening The Good is about amplifying awareness.
    • The fruit is dehiscent, woody, aggregated in bunches and generally contains two seeds.
    • We've aggregated several different polls over the last couple of years.
    • Of course, these are headline-level statistics, aggregating sectors and occupations.
    • Whatever else they are, general elections are a mechanism for aggregating the preferences of millions of people in a way that determines which party gets to form the government of the country.
    • Yet aggregating the collective wisdom and putting a probability on it is a very valuable function in itself.
    • It will enable the Government to fudge things much more because the output classes can be aggregated with this legislation.
    • Rather than looking at distributing a bunch of applications across a bunch of processors and aggregating unused compute power, Powerllel focuses on the application itself.
    • Sensor nodes are aggregated to form clusters based on their power levels and proximity.
    • Let's start off by aggregating all the possible insights about a given subject from all the weblogs that specifically refer to it.
    • Then he began poring over tax forms from various conservative nonprofits and aggregating the data about fund-raising and expenditures.
    • It is not a system for aggregating information and reaching a rational decision about what we should do - it is a system for moderating conflicting interests.
    • These posts are then aggregated or collected into another weighty post, which itself might have the potential to push forward the debate.
    • Erik Gartzke, a Columbia University professor, says such markets are ‘very good at aggregating information.’
    • Yahoo needs to do consider doing something about aggregating news under a subject or topic areas.
    • These markets work their magic, he argues, by aggregating a great deal of information from as many sources as possible.
    Synonyms
    combine, put, group, bunch, unite, pool, mix, blend, merge, mass, join, fuse, conglomerate, coalesce, consolidate, collect, throw, consider together
    1. 1.1Computing Collect (related items of content) so as to display or link to them.
      tools that aggregate data from all of the security devices are a good first step
      Example sentencesExamples
      • For the best performance, large numbers of drives can be connected and their data aggregated into a larger host interface.
      • The standardized format makes it easier to collect business information at multiple points in the business process and easily aggregate data elements into meaningful business information.
      • The RPR network aggregates the packet traffic from around the ring onto one or more highly concentrated links connecting to the network edge.
      • The old Information Access Company aggregates periodical articles in databases and has always been an intrinsically online company.

Phrases

  • in (the) aggregate

    • In total; as a whole.

      总体;整体

      10,000 tonnes in aggregate
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But, if a company is a legal person, and the knowledge of its officials is its knowledge, can that knowledge be aggregated and, in the aggregate, constitute the mens rea for a crime?
      • Is that on the theory that subdivided land in aggregate is worth more than the whole lot?
      • The reason that aggregate profit does not decline is that, in the aggregate, total sales revenues and total productive expenditures, or costs, remain the same.
      • In aggregate, Irish banks have delivered average compound earnings growth of 12% over the past five years.
      • You've got winners and losers - but in aggregate it's a total myth to say the industry is fabulously profitable.
      • In aggregate, the collection attests to the founders' faith in multiple forms of evidence as the reservoir from which keener perspectives about the past would be drawn.
      • Whatever better rate of return can be had from investing Social Security funds in private securities can be had by investing them in the aggregate rather than in millions of private accounts.
      • The rich are probably getting richer but the poor are also doing a little better, on the whole and in the aggregate.
      • The welfare losses by this small group of consumers can be large enough that, in aggregate, there is a total welfare loss to consumers.
      • Human capital consists of the skills possessed by individuals and, in the aggregate, by the labor force as a whole.

Derivatives

  • aggregative

  • adjective ˈaɡrɪɡətɪvˈaɡrɪɡeɪtɪvˈæɡrəˌɡeɪdɪv
    • The results of consolidating spending units into a monolithic solidarity must be to eliminate money as well as other financial phenomena from aggregative economic analysis.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • By focussing on submitting opinions in the form of votes, referenda tend to represent the ‘general will’ in the most simplistic aggregative terms, as little more than a snapshot of majority opinion.
      • Memory does not proceed by the accumulation or collage of fragments, but according to a structuring, aggregative grammar; according to already-visited configurations.
      • Fourth, the conventional focus on overall living standards is too aggregative to pay adequate attention to the importance of specific freedoms.
      • He is among the most ‘museal’ of contemporary poets, and his aggregative and anthological oeuvre now comprises a dozen volumes in which the voices and stories of the high-cultural past reconvene.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin aggregat- 'herded together', from the verb aggregare, from ad- 'towards' + grex, greg- 'a flock'.

  • congregate from Late Middle English:

    The Latin word for a herd or flock was grex, giving congregare, meaning ‘to collect into a herd or flock, to unite’. Gregarious (mid 17th century), meaning ‘fond of company’, is also descended from grex, as are aggregate (Late Middle English) ‘herd together’; egregious (mid 16th century) ‘standing out from the herd’ and originally complimentary; and segregation (mid 16th century) ‘set apart from the herd’.

Definition of aggregate in US English:

aggregate

nounˈæɡrɪɡətˈaɡriɡət
  • 1A whole formed by combining several (typically disparate) elements.

    总数,合计,集合

    the council was an aggregate of three regional assemblies

    该委员会由三个地区性机构组成。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Space is also not an aggregate of its parts but presumably an essential whole preceding all it parts, a view motivated at least in part by theological considerations.
    • The judges will still rank every performer, and that the aggregate of their ranking will be combined with the public vote to determine who goes and who stays every week.
    • In fact, you do not find any ‘self,’ and so you come to know that neither the whole aggregate of form nor any part of it is the self.
    • Its perceptual configurations have been thought to have a special relevance to the emergence of formal artistic qualities which cannot be reduced to a measurable aggregate of more elementary constituents.
    • For neither in any one single thing, nor in the whole aggregate and series of things, can there be found the sufficient reason of existence.
    • Children, given the opportunity, will naturally assemble a personalized aggregate of intelligences needed to approach a learning situation.
    • What will be our relationship with the institutions that bundle aggregates of electronic journals for distribution to libraries?
    • A culture is in reality an aggregate of individuals, not an abstract whole to be subdivided into groups, and Eliot was one hell of an individual.
    • Goffs broke all records for both turnover and average at its premier Orby and Challenge sales with the combined aggregate passing the £39 million barrier.
    • According to Leibniz, the whole world is an aggregate of monads.
    • These objects remain largely as they have always been, an aggregate of separate dust grains and frozen water, loosely held together.
    • The pattern is seen first as aggregates to assemble in the mind, information acquired bit by bit, as in reality.
    • Because each record represented a separate loan, aggregates of multiple loans were matched with individual social security numbers.
    • Except as noted below, data on all cause and cause specific child and infant mortality and of age distribution of child and infant mortality were regional estimates or other aggregates.
    • Rather, economists argue that at the margin, the more costly it is to engage in an activity, the less it will be undertaken particularly when dealing with aggregates of separate actions.
    • Human organs are complex aggregates of cells and tissues, and it is possible that concentrations of trace elements vary among the various aggregates.
    • The sinks are fabricated from a refined polyester resin composite containing a combination of natural and synthetic aggregates, the manufacturer says.
    • The goal of analyzing and interpreting data is to reduce the enormous amount of raw data that have been collected to a manageable aggregate.
    1. 1.1 The total number of points scored by a player or team in a series of sporting contests.
      the result put the sides even on aggregate

      结果是双方积分持平。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Indeed, the cynical may argue that in winning each of their last four games by less than a single score and an aggregate of a mere 14 points, Wharfedale are struggling at the top!
      • Interestingly, despite their team being 6-1 down on aggregate, Bayer Leverkusen's fans have not stopped singing and chanting since the match began.
      • Zesco who are yet to concede a goal earned the second round berth after eliminating PAS Mates 4-0 on aggregate.
      • The Dinamo Kiev striker scored the winner against Turkey in the play off first leg and then got the vital equaliser in Istanbul to level the scores on the night and put Latvia ahead on aggregate.
      • The win, their eighth in 10 matches this month, was worth three points as they tacked on the bonus for winning on aggregate over the home and away fixtures.
      • Barcelona are now totally in charge, with the scores level on aggregate and two away-goals to their credit.
      • Four minutes later, Singapore scored to level the tie on aggregate.
      • With five minutes to go the score was 6-4 and the teams were level on aggregate.
      • The burton and Milnthorpe clubs are separated only by the aggregate on completion of the first half of the season in the South Lakeland Rural League.
      • On their way to the 1991 African Cup Winners Cup triumph over BCC Lions of Nigeria, Power beat Rivatex 4-3 on aggregate in the first round.
      • After beating the Swedes 4-0 on aggregate, the team is now mixing with the powerhouse clubs in what looks like the strongest field ever assembled.
      • Surprisingly only finished second to Switzerland, before beating Wales 1-0 on aggregate in a nervy play-off.
      • The Hungarians equalised late in the game, and went through 4-2 on aggregate after a 3-1 home win a fortnight later.
      • After finishing second to Bulgaria in their qualifying group, Croatia beat Slovenia 2-1 on aggregate in a Balkan play-off.
      • It was Nelson who took the title for the best aggregate gross score, although their 296 total was matched by Burnley and the host club.
      • Freuberg won 4-0 to advance 4-2 on aggregate to the third round.
      • They beat a Lions side which barely put up a fight; this is the weakest Australian side for many years; and a Springboks side still in transition came very close indeed to beating them in New Zealand and won the two games on aggregate.
      • England did not enter in 1960, the first tournament and were beaten 6-3 on aggregate by France in the first round of the 1964 competition.
      • It was extra time and 2-2 on aggregate when they flashed a footballing épée, scored twice without making a sound and left Tony Adams and Co dazed and confused.
      • They had lost the first leg 5-1 and went behind early in the second leg before scoring eight goals to win 9-7 on aggregate with the whole team sharing the match award.
      Synonyms
      total, sum total, sum, whole amount, grand total, totality, entirety, summation, gross, result, final figure
  • 2A material or structure formed from a loosely compacted mass of fragments or particles.

    集料聚合体

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Soil particles are bound together into aggregates and these influence the precise pore structure of the soil.
    • Malachite is also well known as loosely coherent aggregates and. as thin green films and stains.
    • Therefore, the stable structure of the aggregate is not needed to determine its mechanical properties.
    • The material inside the skull is an aggregate of clay-sized chloritic material and is a treasure trove of minerals.
    • The stability of an aggregate will depend on the number of vesicles in the aggregate and on the energy per vesicle.
    • Polysaccharides help form humus, which enables small clay or silt particles to stick together to form larger aggregates.
    • According to Brownlee, the loose aggregate of particles seen on comets may represent the first generation of solids in the solar system.
    • Plus, they excrete sticky compounds that glue soil particles into aggregates, keeping the soil open and porous.
    • Temper carbon - compact aggregates or nodules of graphite found in malleable iron as a result of heat treatment.
    • Marcasite, when viewed in hand specimen, tends to form crudely banded masses or massive aggregates.
    • Underfoot irregular, pebbles lay like aggregate and chips of stone protruded from the compacted ground, as desiccated and brittle as human bone.
    • These actin nucleation sites lead to the formation of large aggregates due to charge shielding between actin monomers in the aggregate and monomers in the bulk.
    • The fine sand and silt size fraction comprised decayed plant material, pollen, occasional chitin fragments, clay aggregates, diatoms and fine silicates.
    • The simulations predict loose aggregates of particles with many branches in a complex network, like a portion of a spider's web.
    • It encourages microorganism activity causing soil particles to clump together and form aggregates.
    • The crystals were yellow-brown aggregates of needle-shaped structures that simulated haystacks.
    • So I could infer the general composition of that… aggregate clump by the fireplace, but I'll be switched if I know its point of origin.
    • If the platelets are not separated, it is unlikely that the shear forces generated during the compounding process will be sufficient to overcome the forces holding the aggregates together.
    Synonyms
    collection, mass, cluster, lump, clump, pile, heap, bundle, quantity
    1. 2.1 Pieces of broken or crushed stone or gravel used to make concrete, or more generally in building and construction work.
      集料,混凝料,骨料
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Block/concrete brick are manufactured using Portland cement, aggregate, sand, and water.
      • Pots were filled with building aggregate (referred to as ‘sand’) by hand and stones over about 1 cm in length were removed during pot filling.
      • Assuming that the concrete has good aggregate to begin with, enduring freezing and thawing is the primary durability issue.
      • A contract to rebuild a stretch of the A5087 on Rampside Road in Barrow is a pilot scheme in which recycled glass is mixed in with the stone aggregate normally used in the lower layers of the road.
      • The Guardian this week reported a plan to recruit 900 construction workers from Jamaica to fill a local shortage, and also a shortage of local aggregate to mix with cement in making concrete.
      • The original structural system, including the roof, was entirely cast-in-place reinforced concrete using normal-weight aggregate.
      • Concrete marble aggregate is one of its key components with 57 white columns, each weighing 29 tonnes, forming the structure of the building.
      • Stone tile, a relatively affordable alternative to stone, is made from real stone aggregate suspended in a polymer binder.
      • Aggregates are concrete and other materials sorted, crushed and mixed so as to form mixed aggregate in pieces of 70 mm, or less, in diameter.
      • He started work just after 8am and had been helping to unload stones and aggregate in large bags from a ship's hold.
      • Britain used to have a healthy stable of big concrete, aggregate and cement groups, from Blue Circle to Tarmac and RMC.
      • Old concrete that has reached the end of its service life can be recycled and reused as aggregate for new concrete mixtures.
      • But recovered concrete can be crushed and used as road gravel or aggregate.
      • The serene, cave-like space is defined by floors of smooth grey Italian stone and walls of ground faced concrete block with black aggregate and charcoal mortar.
      • The funding was a result of a Government tax levied on every tonne of stone aggregate extracted from quarrying.
      • When mixed with fine aggregate used in concrete, these cements reportedly achieve strengths up to 14,000 psi.
      • The panels, which are to be made of concrete and limestone aggregate, will create horizontal bands of shadows on the exterior.
      • All these trucks turn up at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon with gravel and sand and aggregate, wanting to dump it.
      • Dawnus provided machines to prepare the site and supplied concrete, aggregate, timber and manpower.
      • Brits also appear to have an long term fascination with types of paving surfaces, so you could find yourself tripping on stone, brick, aggregate, concrete, rock or blocks.
adjective
  • 1attributive Formed or calculated by the combination of many separate units or items; total.

    总计的,合计的

    the aggregate amount of grants made

    总计捐赠。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Registering trustees are required to report the aggregate amount of funds under supervision and the names of the trusts.
    • The only limit which it imposes is not upon the court's assessment of the damages but upon the aggregate amount that the plaintiff can recover by execution under any of the judgments.
    • Of course this is not all bad; among other things, it will greatly increase variety, the aggregate amount of information, and the entertainment value of actual choices.
    • We think you will agree therefore that the test is whether the aggregate amount of rent payable during the year commencing 12 April 1983 exceeded two thirds of the rateable value of the property on that date.
    • Frisvold, Tronstad, and Mortensen use a different modeling approach to calculate aggregate welfare changes from the introduction of Bt cotton in the same period.
    • From the aggregate data, we calculated the overall rates of frequencies of patient identification and vital sign monitoring.
    • The aggregate amount of these claims, calculated as at July 31, 1992 was approximately $5,165,000.
    • Their parting present to SE was to increase the aggregate amount which it could legally have outstanding from £2bn to £3bn.
    • The ATL companies would pay an aggregate amount of £7.5 million to various BTL company creditors.
    • This aggregate amount represents an increase of 25 per cent in Commonwealth Government funding to those three categories of schools.
    • For the whole period, the 47 transactions had an aggregate transaction amount, in Canadian dollars, of $3,986, 351.
    • The aggregate amount of the assessed tax was £1, 245, 545 plus interest.
    • Satanjib Dutta of Cotton College has topped the final list this year, with letter marks in six subjects and total aggregate marks of 439.
    • The aggregate amount of loans also picked up drastically, from 7.3 billion leva to 11.1 billion leva.
    • He asked them to determine whether there were any separate or aggregate health issues that would mean General Pinochet was unfit to stand trial in Spain.
    • Why not, in addition to accelerating the promised development assistance, increase the aggregate amount of aid by the next summit in 2003?
    • Your children may receive an aggregate amount of gifts and inheritances to the value of 456,438 from their parents, free from Irish tax.
    • The issue was for an aggregate amount of Rs 100 crore and was rated ‘AAA’ by Crisil.
    • The payment period is for 25 years, or when the aggregate amount has been collected, whichever comes first.
    • Nevertheless, the results suggest that it would be of biotechnological interest to separate the aggregate subclasses and use the lower complexity aggregates in refolding protocols.
    Synonyms
    total, combined, whole, gross, accumulated, added, entire, complete, full, comprehensive, overall, composite
    1. 1.1Botany (of a group of species) comprising several very similar species formerly regarded as a single species.
      〔植〕(种群)聚生的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In the case of the Poa secunda aggregate, to recognize 45 "small species" is unrealistic.
      • Some chromosomal variation is evident in the New Zealand members of the K. ericoides complex, which helps to support the recognition of additional taxa within this aggregate species.
      • If treated as a variety of the aggregate species D. intermedia, the New Zealand plant must bear the varietal name of norfolkensis, whether it occurs elsewhere or not.
      • Rifai (1969) adopted the concept of ‘aggregate’ species, and distinguished nine ‘species aggregates’, and admitted that some of them (particularly T. hamatum) likely contain two or more morphologically indistinguishable species.
      • Dandelions are so hard to identify that many botanists will record them as the aggregate.
    2. 1.2Economics Denoting the total supply or demand for goods and services in an economy at a particular time.
      〔经济〕总量的
      aggregate demand

      总需求。

      aggregate supply

      总供给。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The notion that economies, as a whole, sometimes lack sufficient drive derives from a faulty set of economic doctrines that focus on the demand side of the aggregate economy.
      • Sichel, however, shows that even the growing share of the service sector is not enough to substantially raise measurement errors for the aggregate economy.
      • For all of their conceptual and measurement problems, economic aggregate measures are the best means we have for understanding the economy.
      • For this reason, other economists, such as the authors of the UN Human Development Report, routinely exclude China from aggregate data covering developing nations.
      • What we have mostly, to this day, are single-market analyses, or aggregate models of the entire economy, such as the monetary models used today
      Synonyms
      total, whole, entire, complete, full, overall, comprehensive
verbˈaɡrəˌɡātˈæɡrəˌɡeɪt
  • 1Form or group into a class or cluster.

    集合,聚集

    no object the butterflies aggregate in dense groups
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Of course, these are headline-level statistics, aggregating sectors and occupations.
    • Markets have consistently beat the alternatives at aggregating information.
    • Whatever else they are, general elections are a mechanism for aggregating the preferences of millions of people in a way that determines which party gets to form the government of the country.
    • It is not a system for aggregating information and reaching a rational decision about what we should do - it is a system for moderating conflicting interests.
    • Let's start off by aggregating all the possible insights about a given subject from all the weblogs that specifically refer to it.
    • Rather than looking at distributing a bunch of applications across a bunch of processors and aggregating unused compute power, Powerllel focuses on the application itself.
    • It will enable the Government to fudge things much more because the output classes can be aggregated with this legislation.
    • Blackbirds seem to maximize that benefit by aggregating their nests in dense colonies.
    • These posts are then aggregated or collected into another weighty post, which itself might have the potential to push forward the debate.
    • We've aggregated several different polls over the last couple of years.
    • Sensor nodes are aggregated to form clusters based on their power levels and proximity.
    • These markets work their magic, he argues, by aggregating a great deal of information from as many sources as possible.
    • Erik Gartzke, a Columbia University professor, says such markets are ‘very good at aggregating information.’
    • Of course democracy can be seen as a mechanism for aggregating diverse views about both facts and values; and Habermas offers a distinctive account of democracy.
    • While the Command Post was about aggregating information, Strengthening The Good is about amplifying awareness.
    • Yahoo needs to do consider doing something about aggregating news under a subject or topic areas.
    • The fruit is dehiscent, woody, aggregated in bunches and generally contains two seeds.
    • Then he began poring over tax forms from various conservative nonprofits and aggregating the data about fund-raising and expenditures.
    • He appears convincing by aggregating voluminous references without subjecting himself to the rigours of the scientific process.
    • Yet aggregating the collective wisdom and putting a probability on it is a very valuable function in itself.
    Synonyms
    combine, put, group, bunch, unite, pool, mix, blend, merge, mass, join, fuse, conglomerate, coalesce, consolidate, collect, throw, consider together
    1. 1.1Computing Collect (related items of content) so as to display or link to them.
      tools that aggregate data from all of the security devices are a good first step
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The RPR network aggregates the packet traffic from around the ring onto one or more highly concentrated links connecting to the network edge.
      • The standardized format makes it easier to collect business information at multiple points in the business process and easily aggregate data elements into meaningful business information.
      • The old Information Access Company aggregates periodical articles in databases and has always been an intrinsically online company.
      • For the best performance, large numbers of drives can be connected and their data aggregated into a larger host interface.

Phrases

  • in (the) aggregate

    • In total; as a whole.

      总体;整体

      Example sentencesExamples
      • But, if a company is a legal person, and the knowledge of its officials is its knowledge, can that knowledge be aggregated and, in the aggregate, constitute the mens rea for a crime?
      • The rich are probably getting richer but the poor are also doing a little better, on the whole and in the aggregate.
      • You've got winners and losers - but in aggregate it's a total myth to say the industry is fabulously profitable.
      • Human capital consists of the skills possessed by individuals and, in the aggregate, by the labor force as a whole.
      • Whatever better rate of return can be had from investing Social Security funds in private securities can be had by investing them in the aggregate rather than in millions of private accounts.
      • In aggregate, Irish banks have delivered average compound earnings growth of 12% over the past five years.
      • The reason that aggregate profit does not decline is that, in the aggregate, total sales revenues and total productive expenditures, or costs, remain the same.
      • Is that on the theory that subdivided land in aggregate is worth more than the whole lot?
      • In aggregate, the collection attests to the founders' faith in multiple forms of evidence as the reservoir from which keener perspectives about the past would be drawn.
      • The welfare losses by this small group of consumers can be large enough that, in aggregate, there is a total welfare loss to consumers.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin aggregat- ‘herded together’, from the verb aggregare, from ad- ‘towards’ + grex, greg- ‘a flock’.

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