aggregationn.

Brit.

/ˌaɡrᵻˈɡeɪʃn/, U.S.

/ˌæɡrəˈɡeɪʃən/

Forms: late Middle English aggregacioun, late Middle English agregacion, late Middle English agregacioun, 1500s aggregacion, 1500s– aggregation, 1600s agregation.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French aggregation; Latin aggregation-, aggregatio.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French aggregation (French agrégation , †aggregation ) gathering, assemblage, collection (1375; 1680 in sense 3), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin aggregation-, aggregatio action of gathering into a mass (c400), action of adding, assemblage, union (6th cent.) < classical Latin aggregāt- , past participial stem of aggregāre < aggregate v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Spanish agregación (1424), Italian aggregazione (1306). Compare aggregate n.

1. The action or process of collecting particles into a mass, or particulars into a whole; collection, assemblage, union. Also: the action or process of adding one particle to one already added, or to an amount, etc. Frequently attributive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > composite collectiveness > accumulation

aggregation?a1425

accumulation1490

accumulating?1550

congestion1593

compilation1598

accruement1609

cumulation1616

amassing1618

amassment1652

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 26 Þe pusculez ysaid ar noȝt of myxtion & aggregacioun [L. aggregatione; ?c1425 Paris gadrynge to gedre] of naturale humours.

c1450 Art Nombryng in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 39 (MED) Duplicacioun is agregacion of nombre [to itself] þat me may se the nombre growen.

1557 W. Baldwin & T. Palfreyman Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) iii. iii. f. 84 Learning is none other thinge but an aggregacion of many mens sentences & actes.

1645 J. Sadler Flagellum Flagelli 13 They are not an example of uniting or aggregation, except it be found that there were many churches aggregated.

1671 J. Webster Metallographia iii. 45 By aggregation and apposition of atoms.

1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music I. 345 Neuma..signifies an aggregation of as many sounds as may be uttered in one single respiration.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. iii. v. 638 By the continual aggregation of one individual case to another.

1875 C. Darwin Insectivorous Plants vi. 113 The glands were blackened from the aggregation of their protoplasmic contents.

1952 G. Gamow in Birth & Death of Sun Pref. p. x It must have taken only a few hundred million years for the original dust particles of about one micron in diameter to grow by the aggregation process to the size of planets.

1977 Ann. Internal Med. 86 605/2 This test..did not really differentiate between adhesion and aggregation because both processes contribute to the ‘consumption’ of platelets.

2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 29 Apr. 46/1 No series of excerpts could do justice to the weather journals' quiet observations, whose effect depends on an impression of dailiness, of steady aggregation.

2. concrete.

a. A whole composed of many individuals; a mass formed by the union of distinct particles; a gathering, assemblage, collection.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > mass formed by collection of particles

aggregatea1425

aggregation1547

concentration1606

compositure1632

collective1655

conglomeration1697

agglutination1743

1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe ii. f. ii A fat matter in the browes the which be granuluse aggregacions.

1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. ii. §142. 107 The Church being nothing else but an aggregation of Believers.

1797 Monthly Mag. Mar. 210/2 These animals have neither heart, nor blood-vessel, nor brain, nor nerves; like plants, they are merely aggregations of tubes or globules, in which a motion is kept up by the absorption and transpiration of fluids.

1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic v. 106 Small spherical aggregations of siliceous matter.

1863 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. i. v. 71 Victoria has..advanced from an aggregation of isolated settlements to the position of a prosperous country.

1903 L. F. Anderson Anglo-Saxon Scop 5 The poem itself is an aggregation of several interesting specimens of the scop's art.

1927 Harper's Mag. Oct. 641/1 One of those complex aggregations of knife-edges, cams, springs, and swinging bob-weights.

2001 S. Johnson Emergence Introd. 15 The math would work for aggregations of free-floating cells.

b. Originally and chiefly North American. A number of people associated in some joint activity, esp. a troupe, band of performers, or sports team.

ΚΠ

1886 E. E. Kidder On Stage (typescript) i. 6 My All star Antipodean Asteroid Aggregation of Acrobatic Artists.

1889 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 13 July 1/6 Manager Harris' team is not now so much of an ‘all star aggregation’..as it was.

1948 L. Allen Cincinnati Reds xxiii. 215 Babe had been the central figure in the bizarre aggregation of Dodgers gathered together by manager Wilbert Robinson.

1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 18 Dec. g8 Herbie Hancock..brings his latest aggregation—including a DJ mixer and the mechanical star of his ‘Rockit’ video, to the Bayou on Monday.

2000 Irish Emigrant 27 Mar. 3/3 Featured in the concert will be international singing star Mary Black and the noted traditional music aggregation, Altan.

3. The adding of a person, etc., to an association as a member; admission, affiliation.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > [noun] > admission to

admission1423

admittinga1504

admittance1550

aggregation1796

1596 R. Robinson tr. V. Strigel Fourth Proceeding Harmony King Dauids Harp lxii. 13 I desire not the coniunction or aggregation vnto the church, with a certaine ambition or couetousnesse..for wealth and promotions sake.

1643 S. Ashe & W. Rathband Let. Ministers Old Eng. iv. 60 The Catholique Church is one intire bodie, made up by the collection and agregation of all the faithfull unto the unity thereof.

a1710 G. Bull Some Important Points Primitive Christianity (1713) II. 555 The Aggregation, or joyning of one's self to the Worship and Service of the only true God.

1796 Monthly Rev. 20 App. 537 The second [book] recounts his aggregation to the society of free-masons.

1845 Era 17 Aug. The aggregation of Texas to the United States tramples under foot all the conservatory principles of societies.

1964 J. Gould & W. L. Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 607/1 Birth rituals..signifying the separation of the infant from the world of the dead (or not-living) and his aggregation to that of the living.

1997 W. Templer tr. W. Sofsky Order of Terror viii. 84 After the symbolic mutilation and denudation, their aggregation into prisoner society began with the distribution of camp uniforms.

4. The state of being aggregated, assembled, or united into a whole; aggregate condition.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > composite collectiveness

aggregation1646

aggregateness1668

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 10 Their individuall imperfections being great, they are moreover enlarged by their aggregation .

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 297 The first state of a body, at least chymically considered, is that in which it is in the greatest possible aggregation.

1827 Mechanics' Mag. 8 Sept. 122/1 Nature..presents few, if any, substances so detached but that a sufficient number of atoms are in aggregation to form a particle.

1870 J. Tyndall Heat (ed. 4) v. §176. 143 The phenomena which accompany changes of the state of aggregation.

1928 Philos. Theol. 1 19 A complex presentation can only be an aggregate of sensa; and that, after all, is but sensa in aggregation.

2008 Z. Cui Nanofabrication viii. 305 It is the capillary force during drying that drives the colloidal nanoparticles into aggregation.

5. Biology. A group or colony consisting of a number of separate individuals joined together or in close proximity; the process by which organisms come together in this way.Cf. association n. 12.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animals collectively > [noun] > assembling

herding1709

aggregation1805

packing1879

1805 Ann. Bot. 1 40 Some Confervæ, Byssi, Tremellæ, are real polypi, others habitations of these animals (Polipiers), and others again aggregations of polypi, so attached to each other as to form a tube.

1851 T. H. Huxley Sci. Mem. (1898) I. 91 ‘Unicellular’ animals..either consist of a single cell, or of definite aggregations of such cells.

1912 J. S. Huxley Individual in Animal Kingdom iv. 110 In the making of Volvox, community-life—mere aggregation—came first, division of labour last.

1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. xi. 235 Aggregation is the joining together of a number of separate units to form a super-unit, as when coral polyps unite to form a colony.

1929 J. E. Weaver & F. E. Clements Plant Ecol. i. 3 The individuals come to be grouped, as a result of propagation, a process termed aggregation.

1967 T. Lewis & L. R. Taylor Introd. Exper. Ecol. iv. 180 Aggregation and regular migration can both be clearly seen in the life cycle of the Black Bean Aphid.

1983 R. G. Wetzel Limnology (ed. 2) viii. 138 ‘Lake balls’..are densely packed aggregations of algae, plant parts, or both.

2010 Nature 26 Aug. 1058/1 Their larvae often form dense, cooperative aggregations.

Compounds

aggregation pheromone n. an insect pheromone which attracts other members of the same species to a location, esp. as a defence against predators or to attract potential mates.

ΚΠ

1963 Recent Progr. Hormone Res. 19 697 The presence of..aggregation pheromones can probably be sought with profit among the many fascinating cases of simple aggregation in insects and other animals.

1994 Sci. Amer. July 85/3 Academic research teams..have launched a quest to discover the chemical, known as an aggregation pheromone, that the German cockroach releases to summon a klatsch of males and females.

2006 J. T. Costa Other Insect Societies vii. 161 A T-shaped olfactometer tube was used to test the ability of the nymphs to discriminate fecal odor (not an uncommon source of aggregation pheromone in insects) from a control with clean air.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	aggregation
释义	aggregationn. Brit. /ˌaɡrᵻˈɡeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌæɡrəˈɡeɪʃən/ Forms: late Middle English aggregacioun, late Middle English agregacion, late Middle English agregacioun, 1500s aggregacion, 1500s– aggregation, 1600s agregation. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French aggregation; Latin aggregation-, aggregatio. Etymology: < (i) Middle French aggregation (French agrégation , †aggregation ) gathering, assemblage, collection (1375; 1680 in sense 3), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin aggregation-, aggregatio action of gathering into a mass (c400), action of adding, assemblage, union (6th cent.) < classical Latin aggregāt- , past participial stem of aggregāre < aggregate v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Spanish agregación (1424), Italian aggregazione (1306). Compare aggregate n. 1. The action or process of collecting particles into a mass, or particulars into a whole; collection, assemblage, union. Also: the action or process of adding one particle to one already added, or to an amount, etc. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > composite collectiveness > accumulation aggregation?a1425 accumulation1490 accumulating?1550 congestion1593 compilation1598 accruement1609 cumulation1616 amassing1618 amassment1652 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 26 Þe pusculez ysaid ar noȝt of myxtion & aggregacioun [L. aggregatione; ?c1425 Paris gadrynge to gedre] of naturale humours. c1450 Art Nombryng in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 39 (MED) Duplicacioun is agregacion of nombre [to itself] þat me may se the nombre growen. 1557 W. Baldwin & T. Palfreyman Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) iii. iii. f. 84 Learning is none other thinge but an aggregacion of many mens sentences & actes. 1645 J. Sadler Flagellum Flagelli 13 They are not an example of uniting or aggregation, except it be found that there were many churches aggregated. 1671 J. Webster Metallographia iii. 45 By aggregation and apposition of atoms. 1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music I. 345 Neuma..signifies an aggregation of as many sounds as may be uttered in one single respiration. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. iii. v. 638 By the continual aggregation of one individual case to another. 1875 C. Darwin Insectivorous Plants vi. 113 The glands were blackened from the aggregation of their protoplasmic contents. 1952 G. Gamow in Birth & Death of Sun Pref. p. x It must have taken only a few hundred million years for the original dust particles of about one micron in diameter to grow by the aggregation process to the size of planets. 1977 Ann. Internal Med. 86 605/2 This test..did not really differentiate between adhesion and aggregation because both processes contribute to the ‘consumption’ of platelets. 2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 29 Apr. 46/1 No series of excerpts could do justice to the weather journals' quiet observations, whose effect depends on an impression of dailiness, of steady aggregation. 2. concrete. a. A whole composed of many individuals; a mass formed by the union of distinct particles; a gathering, assemblage, collection. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > mass formed by collection of particles aggregatea1425 aggregation1547 concentration1606 compositure1632 collective1655 conglomeration1697 agglutination1743 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe ii. f. ii A fat matter in the browes the which be granuluse aggregacions. 1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. ii. §142. 107 The Church being nothing else but an aggregation of Believers. 1797 Monthly Mag. Mar. 210/2 These animals have neither heart, nor blood-vessel, nor brain, nor nerves; like plants, they are merely aggregations of tubes or globules, in which a motion is kept up by the absorption and transpiration of fluids. 1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic v. 106 Small spherical aggregations of siliceous matter. 1863 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. i. v. 71 Victoria has..advanced from an aggregation of isolated settlements to the position of a prosperous country. 1903 L. F. Anderson Anglo-Saxon Scop 5 The poem itself is an aggregation of several interesting specimens of the scop's art. 1927 Harper's Mag. Oct. 641/1 One of those complex aggregations of knife-edges, cams, springs, and swinging bob-weights. 2001 S. Johnson Emergence Introd. 15 The math would work for aggregations of free-floating cells. b. Originally and chiefly North American. A number of people associated in some joint activity, esp. a troupe, band of performers, or sports team. ΚΠ 1886 E. E. Kidder On Stage (typescript) i. 6 My All star Antipodean Asteroid Aggregation of Acrobatic Artists. 1889 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 13 July 1/6 Manager Harris' team is not now so much of an ‘all star aggregation’..as it was. 1948 L. Allen Cincinnati Reds xxiii. 215 Babe had been the central figure in the bizarre aggregation of Dodgers gathered together by manager Wilbert Robinson. 1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 18 Dec. g8 Herbie Hancock..brings his latest aggregation—including a DJ mixer and the mechanical star of his ‘Rockit’ video, to the Bayou on Monday. 2000 Irish Emigrant 27 Mar. 3/3 Featured in the concert will be international singing star Mary Black and the noted traditional music aggregation, Altan. 3. The adding of a person, etc., to an association as a member; admission, affiliation. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > [noun] > admission to admission1423 admittinga1504 admittance1550 aggregation1796 1596 R. Robinson tr. V. Strigel Fourth Proceeding Harmony King Dauids Harp lxii. 13 I desire not the coniunction or aggregation vnto the church, with a certaine ambition or couetousnesse..for wealth and promotions sake. 1643 S. Ashe & W. Rathband Let. Ministers Old Eng. iv. 60 The Catholique Church is one intire bodie, made up by the collection and agregation of all the faithfull unto the unity thereof. a1710 G. Bull Some Important Points Primitive Christianity (1713) II. 555 The Aggregation, or joyning of one's self to the Worship and Service of the only true God. 1796 Monthly Rev. 20 App. 537 The second [book] recounts his aggregation to the society of free-masons. 1845 Era 17 Aug. The aggregation of Texas to the United States tramples under foot all the conservatory principles of societies. 1964 J. Gould & W. L. Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 607/1 Birth rituals..signifying the separation of the infant from the world of the dead (or not-living) and his aggregation to that of the living. 1997 W. Templer tr. W. Sofsky Order of Terror viii. 84 After the symbolic mutilation and denudation, their aggregation into prisoner society began with the distribution of camp uniforms. 4. The state of being aggregated, assembled, or united into a whole; aggregate condition. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > composite collectiveness aggregation1646 aggregateness1668 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 10 Their individuall imperfections being great, they are moreover enlarged by their aggregation . View more context for this quotation 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 297 The first state of a body, at least chymically considered, is that in which it is in the greatest possible aggregation. 1827 Mechanics' Mag. 8 Sept. 122/1 Nature..presents few, if any, substances so detached but that a sufficient number of atoms are in aggregation to form a particle. 1870 J. Tyndall Heat (ed. 4) v. §176. 143 The phenomena which accompany changes of the state of aggregation. 1928 Philos. Theol. 1 19 A complex presentation can only be an aggregate of sensa; and that, after all, is but sensa in aggregation. 2008 Z. Cui Nanofabrication viii. 305 It is the capillary force during drying that drives the colloidal nanoparticles into aggregation. 5. Biology. A group or colony consisting of a number of separate individuals joined together or in close proximity; the process by which organisms come together in this way.Cf. association n. 12. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animals collectively > [noun] > assembling herding1709 aggregation1805 packing1879 1805 Ann. Bot. 1 40 Some Confervæ, Byssi, Tremellæ, are real polypi, others habitations of these animals (Polipiers), and others again aggregations of polypi, so attached to each other as to form a tube. 1851 T. H. Huxley Sci. Mem. (1898) I. 91 ‘Unicellular’ animals..either consist of a single cell, or of definite aggregations of such cells. 1912 J. S. Huxley Individual in Animal Kingdom iv. 110 In the making of Volvox, community-life—mere aggregation—came first, division of labour last. 1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. xi. 235 Aggregation is the joining together of a number of separate units to form a super-unit, as when coral polyps unite to form a colony. 1929 J. E. Weaver & F. E. Clements Plant Ecol. i. 3 The individuals come to be grouped, as a result of propagation, a process termed aggregation. 1967 T. Lewis & L. R. Taylor Introd. Exper. Ecol. iv. 180 Aggregation and regular migration can both be clearly seen in the life cycle of the Black Bean Aphid. 1983 R. G. Wetzel Limnology (ed. 2) viii. 138 ‘Lake balls’..are densely packed aggregations of algae, plant parts, or both. 2010 Nature 26 Aug. 1058/1 Their larvae often form dense, cooperative aggregations. Compounds aggregation pheromone n. an insect pheromone which attracts other members of the same species to a location, esp. as a defence against predators or to attract potential mates. ΚΠ 1963 Recent Progr. Hormone Res. 19 697 The presence of..aggregation pheromones can probably be sought with profit among the many fascinating cases of simple aggregation in insects and other animals. 1994 Sci. Amer. July 85/3 Academic research teams..have launched a quest to discover the chemical, known as an aggregation pheromone, that the German cockroach releases to summon a klatsch of males and females. 2006 J. T. Costa Other Insect Societies vii. 161 A T-shaped olfactometer tube was used to test the ability of the nymphs to discriminate fecal odor (not an uncommon source of aggregation pheromone in insects) from a control with clean air. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?a1425
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