MEANING
To combine separate items or observations into a larger total or group.
Use it for
summary statistics; pooled findings; national totalsExplain how individual observations become a summary.
Words that belong together
- aggregate data
- aggregate responses
- aggregate across regions
On the page
We aggregate monthly sales before comparing annual performance.
When responses were aggregated across districts, the rural shortfall disappeared.
The dashboard aggregates expenditure from several departments.
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Word forms
- Base
- aggregate / aggregates
- Past tense
- aggregated
- Past participle
- aggregated
- Present participle
- aggregating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- aggregate / aggregates
- Present continuous
- am/is/are aggregating
- Present perfect
- have/has aggregated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been aggregating
- Past
- aggregated
- Past continuous
- was/were aggregating
- Past perfect
- had aggregated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been aggregating
- Future
- will aggregate / aggregates
- Future continuous
- will be aggregating
- Future perfect
- will have aggregated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been aggregating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic. Common in data analysis; combining can hide differences between subgroups. Also a noun for a total and an adjective meaning combined, recorded here as a verb. Verb inflections [base, third-person singular, past, past participle, -ing]: aggregate, aggregates, aggregated, aggregated, aggregating. Derived family (not inflections): aggregation. Secondary count noun: singular aggregate; plural aggregates; adjective normally non-gradable in the combined-total sense.
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