The combining of two or more kinds of an economic entity into a single category. Data on international trade necessarily aggregate goods and services into manageable groups. For macroeconomic purposes [..]

The formation of groups or clusters of particles (aggregates) in a fluid. In water or in water-base drilling fluid, clay particles form aggregates in a dehydrated, face-to-face configuration. This occ [..]

Process in corporate financial planning whereby the smaller investment proposals of each of the firm's operational units are aggregated and effectively treated as a whole.

Agrégation

a total or coming together of separate parts.

early 15c., from Middle French agrégation or directly from Medieval Latin aggregationem (nominative aggregatio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin aggregare (see aggregate (adj.)).

A concept of market segmentation that assumes that most consumers are alike. Retailers adhering to the concept focus on common dimensions of the market rather than uniqueness, and the strategy is to focus on the broadest possible number of buyers by an appeal to universal product themes. Reliance is on mass distribution, mass advertising, and a uni [..]

The process of combining different surface characteristics from neighboring heterogeneous regions into an average value for the area. It is used in boundary layer studies for surface fluxes, drag, and [..]

Summation of parts. Typically used in reference to estimating. [D02367]

A generic term applied to the practice of volume consolidation or leverage. Demand for identical or similar categories is grouped together in order to offer the buyer greater economies of scale when n [..]

The process of adding up, summing, or otherwise identifying the total value of a variable or measure, especially when used in the study of macroeconomics. Common items that are aggregated are demand, [..]

The process by which individual particles of sand, silt and clay cluster and bind together to form soil peds.

In security, the acquisition of sensitive information by collecting and correlating information of lesser sensitivity. [2382-pt.8]

Definition An accounting of all futures positions owned or controlled by one investor or a group of investors. Aggregation is used to determine applicable reporting requirements. Positions that exceed [..]

noun. 1. a group of living bodies in an area with no noticeable societal construction or organization, retaining the smallest amount of collaborate objectives or mutuality. 2. with regard to statistic [..]

joining (pop)

1 : the collecting of individual units (as damages) into a whole 2 : a collection of separate parts that is unpatentable because no integrated mechanism or new and useful result is produced compare .. [..]

A method of reporting which consolidates payments made by individual companies. This prevents individual company payments or government revenues being identified in a published EITI Report

A practice that allows marketers and local governments to pool the electric or natural gas consumption of multiple customers, or residents as in the case of local governments, in order to purchase the electricity or natural gas at a bulk rate.

Any accumulation of record entities at a level above record object (document, digital document) eg. folder, digital folder or series.

The principle under which all futures positions owned or controlled by one trader (or group of traders acting in concert) are combined to determine reporting status and compliance with speculative lim [..]

A process of searching, gathering and presenting data

The process of totalling the unit quantity or settlement amount of individual settlement instructions, which are settling on the same holding or through the same payment facility, in the same settlement cycle.

Corporate financial planning process whereby small investment proposals are grouped and treated as one investment .

The process of totalling the unit quantity or settlement amount of individual settlement instructions, which are settling on the same holding or through the same payment facility, in the same settlement cycle.

Combining multiple channels (even across bands) to obtain higher overall throughput. See also channel bonding.

A grouping of transactions from Service Providers into a single transaction that is sent to the Fiduciary. To minimize transaction processing costs in electronic toll collection, which can be a significant component of an Issuer's operating costs, Issuers often aggregate. This lowers the transaction cost by splitting the credit card transactio [..]

(n) several things grouped together or considered as a whole(n) the act of gathering something together

Process whereby primary soil particles (sand, silt, clay) are bound together, usually by natural forces and substances derived from root exudates and microbial activity. Soil aggregates are arranged t [..]

See Buying Group.

A collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined.

A collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined.

The process of obtaining aggregate forecasts (such as link flows or modal shares) from disaggregate models. Techniques include naive aggregation and sample enumeration.

Of particular relevance in considering the increased sensitivity/value of large volumes of personal data, but applies also to other information resources. Aggregation is the effect by which information may be combined with other information in order to increase its sensitivity or value. This may be due to: Accumulation - whereby a large quantity o [..]

A term used to describe collections of protectively marked or UNCLASSIFIED official information or assets where the business impact from the compromise of confidentiality, loss of integrity or unavailability of the combination of the information or assets is greater than its component parts and may require a higher level of protection.

In the Initial Aggregation a specific date (normally the tenth day before the date of the aggregation run) is selected.For each usage factor that is associated with the selected date the aggregation p [..]

An item in the SCORM manifest that contains child items. Corresponds to a “cluster” when referred to in the context of SCORM sequencing.

the practice, in assessment, of collating results from a number of disparate activities, according to some agreed weighting, to achieve a single overall assessment figure.

The phenomenon by which dissociated Cells intermixed In Vitro tend to group themselves with Cells of their own type.

The formation of clumps of Red Blood Cells under low or non-flow conditions, resulting from the attraction forces between the Red Blood Cells. The Cells adhere to each other in rouleaux aggregates. Sl [..]

Clumping of Erythrocytes, in vivo, in intact Blood Vessels. Increased and/or abnormal aggregation may Lead to impairment of Microcirculation (Blood sludging and THROMBUS formation) and development of [..]

The attachment of Platelets to one another. This clumping together can be induced by a number of agents (e.g., Thrombin; Collagen) and is part of the mechanism leading to the formation of a THROMBUS.

Chemically stimulated aggregation of Cell Surface Receptors, which potentiates the action of the effector Cell.

a group of individuals

Clustering, as of soil particles, to form granules that aid in aeration and water penetration.

The econometrics of aggregation is about modelling the relationship between individual (micro) behaviour and aggregate (macro) statistics, so that data ...

Aggregation concerns the conditions under which several variables can be treated as one, or macro-relationships derived from micro-relationships. This ...

The aim of aggregation theory is to link the micro and macroeconomic notions of aggregate demand. One would like such a link to exist ...

Aggregation

The ability to get a more complete picture of the information by analyzing several different types of records at once

Collecting data from various databases for the purpose of data processing or analysis.

when falling ice crystals

<computer 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. (01 Feb 1996)

Massing of materials together as in clumping. (18 Nov 1997)

The process by which individual particles of sand, silt and clay cluster and bind together to form soil peds.

The process of summing reservoir (or project) level estimates of resource quantities to higher levels or combinations such as field, country or company totals. Arithmetic summation may yield different results from probabilistic aggregations of distributions

The process by which several smaller gas customers are grouped together under a supplier to meet the minimum consumption requirement.

a patent claim which just recites a list of elements, without indicating how they are interrelated or assembled into an invention. For example, &quot;A door lock comprising a knob, a latch bar and [..]

The act of collecting together (aggregating). The state of being collected into a mass, assemblage, or sum (aggregated). A collection of particulars; an aggregate. (networking) summarizing mul [..]

Aggregation is a function that summarizes data from one or more sources. This could be a measure of central tendency (mean, median, mode), variation (standard deviation), range (minimum, maximum), or [..]

Process in corporate financial planning whereby the smaller investment proposals of each of the firm's operational units are aggregated and effectively treated as a whole.

The process of snowflakes massing together in a cluster, maximizing when temperatures are within just a few degrees of freezing. AIR