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# aggregation

«aggregation» in Mova's school dictionary: **bringing many things together into one group or total** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (aggregation; an aggregation, aggregations)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Aggregation is bringing many things together into one group or total. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aggregation/#m1)

2) An aggregation is a group or mass of things, animals or people gathered together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aggregation/#m2)

3) (formal, data) Aggregation is combining many numbers into one, such as a total or an average. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aggregation/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in science (an aggregation of ladybirds, fish shoals), maths and data (aggregation of scores), and websites that collect news from many sources (news aggregation).

### examples

- An aggregation of ladybirds spent the winter under the bark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aggregation/#x1)
- The website is an aggregation of news from many papers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aggregation/#x2)
- Aggregation of the test scores gave the class average. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aggregation/#x3)
- A huge aggregation of jellyfish washed up on the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aggregation/#x4)
- The report used aggregation, so no single pupil's mark is shown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aggregation/#x5)
- Cities are an aggregation of many small communities. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aggregation/#x6)

### note

Formal word. Verb: «aggregate». In maths, aggregation often means adding up (a total) or finding an average; check which one the problem means.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «aggregation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aggregation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.