aggregation

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

aggregation
    n 1: several things grouped together or considered as a whole
         [syn: {collection}, {aggregation}, {accumulation},
         {assemblage}]
    2: the act of gathering something together [syn: {collection},
       {collecting}, {assembling}, {aggregation}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Aggregation \Ag`gre*ga"tion\, n. [Cf. LL. aggregatio, F.
   agr['e]gation.]
   The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated;
   collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars;
   an aggregate.
   [1913 Webster]

         Each genus is made up by aggregation of species.
                                                  --Carpenter.
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         A nation is not an idea only of local extent and
         individual momentary aggregation, but . . . of
         continuity, which extends in time as well as in
         numbers, and in space.                   --Burke.
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from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

aggregation

   <programming> A composition technique for building a new
   {object} from one or more existing objects that support some
   or all of the new object's required interfaces.

   (1996-01-07)

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

120 Moby Thesaurus words for "aggregation":
      Anschluss, accumulation, acervation, addition, affiliation,
      agglomerate, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregate, agreement,
      alliance, amalgamation, amassment, articulation, assemblage,
      assembly, assimilation, association, backlog, blend, blending,
      bond, bracketing, cabal, cartel, centralization, chunk, clustering,
      coalescence, coalition, collection, colluvies, combination,
      combine, combo, communication, company, composition, concatenation,
      concourse, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, confluence,
      congeries, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, conjugation,
      conjunction, connection, consolidation, conspiracy, convergence,
      copulation, coupling, crowd, cumulation, ecumenism, embodiment,
      encompassment, enosis, federalization, federation, fusion,
      gathering, glomeration, gob, group, hoard, hookup, hunk, inclusion,
      incorporation, integration, intercommunication, intercourse,
      interlinking, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, junta,
      knotting, league, liaison, linkage, linking, lump, marriage, mass,
      meeting, meld, melding, merger, merging, muster, package,
      package deal, pairing, reserve, ruck, snowball, solidification,
      splice, stockpile, symbiosis, syncretism, syndication, syneresis,
      synthesis, tie, tie-in, tie-up, trove, unification, union, wad,
      wedding, yoking