aggregant (agregant)

[L. aggregan(t-)s, ppr. of aggregare: see aggregate, v.] One of the particulars which go to make up an aggregate; specifically, one of a number of logical terms which are added together to make a logical sum. Aggregata (ag-rē-gā'tä), n. pl. [NL., neut. pl. of L. aggregatus: see aggregate, v.] In Cuvier's system of cla ification, the second family of his Acephala nuda, or shell-le acephals; the compound or social ascidians: opposed to Se gregata. aggregate (ag're-gāt), v.; pret. and pp. aggre gated, ppr. aggregating. [L. aggregatus, tus, pp. of aggregare, re, adgregare, lead to a flock, add to, The protoplasmic fluid within a cell does not become aggregated unle it be in a living state, and only imper. fectly if the cell has been injured. Darwin, Insectiv. Plants, p. 62. Ideas which were only feebly connected become aggre gated into a close and compact whole. W. K. Clifford, Lectures, I. 93. 2. To amount to (the number of); make (the sum or total of): an elliptical use. The guns captured. will aggregate in all probability five or six hundred. Morning Star , April 17, 1865. ( N. E.D. ) 3. To add or unite to as a constituent member; make a part of the aggregate of: as, to aggre gate a person to a company or society. [Rare.] II. in trans. To come together into a sum or ma ; combine and form a collection or ma . The taste of honey aggregates with sweet tastes in general, of which it is one - not with such tastes as those of quinine, or of castor oil. H. Spencer , Prin. of Psychol., § 114. aggregate (ag're-gat), a. and n. [L. aggrega tus, pp.: see the verb.] I. a. Formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole ma or sum; total; combined: as, the aggregate amount of indebtedne . Societies formed by conquest may be... composed of two societies, which are in a large measure alien; and in them there cannot arise a political force from the aggregate will. H. Spencer , Prin. of Sociol., § 469. Specifically-(a) In geol ., composed of several different constituents capable of being separated by me chanical means: as, granite is an aggregate rock. (b) In an at., clustered: as, aggregate glands (Peyer's glands). (c) In bot., forming a dense cluster. (d) In zool., compound; a ociated. ( e ) In law, composed of many individuals united into one a ociation. - Aggregate animals, animals in which many individual organisms are united in a common "household" or œcium, as various polyps, acalephs, etc. See cuts under anthozoőid and Cor all i gena. Aggregate combination, in mech., a combination which causes compound motions in secondary pieces. The effects of aggregate combinations are cla ified as aggregate paths and aggregate velocities (which see, below). - Aggregate flower, one formed of several florets closely gathered upon Aggregate fruit, a fruit formed when a cluster of distinct a common receptacle, but not coherent, as in Composite. carpels belonging to a single flower are crowded upon the common receptacle, becoming baccate or drupaceous, and sometimes more or le coherent, as in the blackberry and the fruit of the magnolia. Also sometimes used as synony mous with multiple or compound fruit (which see, under fruit). See cut under Rubus. - Aggregate glands. See gland. - Aggregate path, in mech,, that path through which a part of a machine is moved, which is the resultant of the aggregate combination of the other parts which operate it. Thus, in so-called parallel motion, a movement of one part in a right line is effected by the combined and counteracting movements of other parts moving in circular arcs. Aggregate velocity, the resultant velocity imparted by forces moving with different or with varying velocities, as the velocities imparted by systems of pulleys through trains of gearing, or by so-called differential motions.-Corporation aggregate, in law. See corpora tion. II. n. 1. A sum, ma , or a emblage of particulars; a total or gro amount; any combined whole considered with reference to its constituent parts. An aggregate is e entially a sum, as, for example, a heap of sand, whose parts are loosely or accidentally a ociated. When the relation between the parts is more intimate either chemical, as in a molecule or a crystal, or organic, as in a living body, or for the realization of a design, as in a house-the sum ceases to be a mere aggregate and becomes a compound, a combination, an organism, etc. But in a general way anything consisting of distinguishable elements may be called an aggregate of those elements: as, man is an aggregate of structures and organs; a mineral or volcanic aggregate (that is, a compound rock). Looking to the aggregate of all the interests of the commonwealth. D. Webster , Speech, Boston, June 5, 1828. Aggregates of brilliant pa ages rather than harmonious wholes. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 414. aggre ion The difference between an aggregate and a product is that in the first case the component parts are simply grouped together, added; in the second, the constituent elements are blended, multiplied into each other. G. H. Lewes, Probs. of Life and Mind, II. ii. § 93. 2. Any hard material added to lime to make concrete. N. E. D. -3. Milit ., the total commi ioned and enlisted force of any post, department, division, corps, or other command. - In the aggregate, taken together; considered as a whole; collectively. Our judgment of a man's character is derived from observing a number of succe ive acts, forming in the aggre gate his general course of conduct. Sir G. C. Lewis, Authority in Matters of Opinion, ii. aggregated (ag're-ga-ted), p. a. Same as aggre gate, a. aggregately (ag'rē-gat-li), adv. Collectively; taken together or in the aggregate. Many little things, though separately they seem too insignificant to mention, yet aggregately are too material for me to omit. Chesterfield, Letters, II. 347.