AGGREGATION

AGGREGA'TION, noun 1. The act of aggregating; the state of being collected into a sum or mass; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.2. In chimistry, the affinity of aggregation is the power which causes homogeneous bodies to tend towards each other, and to cohere; and from a mixture, which consists of parts dissimilar in their nature. The word is used of solid, fluid, or aeriform bodies.3. The union and coherence of bodies of the same nature.

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aggregation. Aggregation, n. the act of gathering into one mass, the whole mass, the union of like bodies

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Ag′gre‐ga″tion (�), n. [[Cf. LL. aggregatio, F. agrégation.]] The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate. Each genus is made up by aggregation of species. Carpenter. A nation is not an idea only of local extent and individual momentary aggregation, but . . . of continuity, which extends in time as well as in numbers, and in space. Burke.