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aggregate
/ˈæɡɹəɡət/
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The noun and adjective have a light ending.
Stress AG and use hard g sounds. The verb ends with gate, with the vowel in day.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“The chart shows the aggregate total.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does aggregate mean?
noun
- A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.
- A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
- The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
More meanings (15)
noun
- The total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores.
- Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
- Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements; especially the gravel and sand added to concrete.
- Any of the five attributes that constitute the sentient being.
- A mechanical mixture of more than one phase.
- (obsolete) A set (collection of objects).
adjective
- Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.
- Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.
- Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
- Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
- Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
- United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.
verb
- To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.
- To amount in the aggregate to.
- (archaic) To add or unite (e.g. a person), to an association.
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IPA pronunciation
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All these general facts go to prove the close and intimate connection between crime and the aggregate of its various constituents.
It is an aggregate of lawns, slopes, and glades, about eighteen miles in length, but never more than two miles in width.
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But it may be seriously questioned whether in the aggregate Edison's visitors are less numerous or less time-consuming than his epistolary besiegers.
This habit of making obvious costliness a canon of serviceability of course acts to enhance the aggregate cost of articles of consumption.
It represented an aggregate of various countries which the repeated efforts of the kings, including Louis XIV., had not succeeded in wholly unifying.