FromLatinaggregātiō, fromaggregō(“aggregate”).
aggregation (countable anduncountable,pluralaggregations)
- The act ofcollecting together, ofaggregating.
- The state of being collected into a mass,assemblage, or (aggregated) sum.
- A collection of particulars; anaggregate.
- (networking) Summarizing multipleroutes into one route.
- (epidemiology) The majority of theparasite population concentrated into a minority of thehost population.
- (object-oriented programming) Kind of objectcomposition which does not imply ownership.
2002, Kirk Knoernschild, edited by Addison-Wesley Professional,Java Design: Objects, UML, and Process[1]:The difference between an association and anaggregation is entirely conceptual and is focused strictly on semantics.
- (linguistics) Acomponent of naturallanguage generation that entails combiningsyntactic elements.
act of aggregating, or state of being aggregated
collection into a mass or sum
—see alsoaggregatecollection of particulars
summarizing multiple routes into one route
