Dictionary Definition
aggregation
Noun
1 several things grouped together or considered
as a whole [syn: collection, accumulation, assemblage]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
Noun
- The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated
- collection into a mass or sum
- a collection of particulars
- an aggregate
- summarizing multiple routes into one route
- In the context of "epidemiology": the majority of the parasite population concentrated into a minority of the host population
Translations
The act of aggregating, or the state of being
aggregated
- Finnish: yhdistäminen, kokoaminen, koostaminen
collection into a mass or sum
- Finnish: yhdistäminen, kokoaminen, koostaminen
a collection of particulars
an aggregate
- Finnish: keräymä, aggregaatti, kooste
summarizing multiple routes into one route
- Finnish: kooste
Extensive Definition
The term aggregation may refer to:
- In statistics and social science aggregation means combining statistics from different entities to higher entities.
- Aggregate demand, in economics, combining entities into a single entity which represent them.
- Schooling, in biology, a collection of animals of the same size and body orientation, often cruising in the same direction; applied to fish.
- In cardiovascular physiology, refers to the accumulation of platelets to the site of a wound to form a platelet plug or a thrombus.
- Aggregation, in object-oriented programming.
- Route aggregation, in computer networking
- Aggregation (internet), the process of combining multiple web feeds.
- In business and economics, aggregation is the concentration of a good, service, business functions, or market power in the hands of a small concentrated group of companies, typically by purchasing assets or by mergers and acquisitions.
- In television broadcasting, the merging of several license areas into a single area, allowing competition between broadcasters. For its application in Australia, see List of Australian television channels.
- In content publishing, the ability to combine content from any number of licensed or unlicensed sources into a common venue or distribution channel.
- Agrégation, in French-speaking countries, higher-level competitive examinations for teachers and professors.
- Particle aggregation, in materials science, a physical phenomenon.
- In civil engineering and the earth sciences, aggregation produces soil structure through flocculation and weak cementation.
- Link aggregation, in computer networking, utilizing multiple physical NICs as a single logical interface; "trunking".
- Aggregate analysis, in computer science, especially in analysis of algorithms, refers to a technique used in Amortized Analysis.
- Aggregation, in veterinary epidemiology, is an important factor in the population dynamics of host-macroparasite, is relevant in stabilizing the dynamics toward an equilibrium coexistence.
See also
aggregation in German: Aggregation
aggregation in French: Agrégation
aggregation in Lithuanian: Agregavimas
aggregation in Polish: Agregacja
(ujednoznacznienie)
aggregation in Russian: Агрегация
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Anschluss, accumulation, acervation, addition, affiliation, agglomerate, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregate, agreement, alliance, amalgamation, amassment, articulation, assemblage, assembly, assimilation, association, backlog, blend, blending, bond, bracketing, cabal, cartel, centralization, chunk, clustering, coalescence, coalition, collection, colluvies, combination, combine, combo, communication, company, composition, concatenation, concourse, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, confluence, congeries, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, connection, consolidation, conspiracy, convergence, copulation, coupling, crowd, cumulation, ecumenism, embodiment, encompassment, enosis, federalization, federation, fusion, gathering, glomeration, gob, group, hoard, hookup, hunk, inclusion, incorporation, integration, intercommunication,
intercourse,
interlinking,
joinder, joining, jointure, junction, junta, knotting, league, liaison, linkage, linking, lump, marriage, mass, meeting, meld, melding, merger, merging, muster, package, package deal, pairing, reserve, ruck, snowball, solidification, splice, stockpile, symbiosis, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tie, tie-in, tie-up, trove, unification, union, wad, wedding, yoking