aggregation

From Latin aggregātiō, from aggregō (“aggregate”).

• IPA^(key): /æɡɹəˈɡeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

aggregation (countable and uncountable, plural aggregations)

1. The act of collecting together, of aggregating.
2. The state of being collected into a mass, assemblage, or (aggregated) sum.
3. A collection of particulars; an aggregate.
4. (networking) Summarizing multiple routes into one route.
5. (epidemiology) The majority of the parasite population concentrated into a minority of the host population.
6. (object-oriented programming) Kind of object composition which does not imply ownership.
   • 2002, Kirk Knoernschild, edited by Addison-Wesley Professional, Java Design: Objects, UML, and Process‎:

     The difference between an association and an aggregation is entirely conceptual and is focused strictly on semantics.

7. (linguistics) A component of natural language generation that entails combining syntactic elements.

• disgregation
• disaggregation