noun
The act of collecting together, of aggregating.
The state of being collected into a mass, assemblage, or (aggregated) sum.
A collection of particulars; an aggregate.
(networking) Summarizing multiple routes into one route.
(epidemiology) The majority of the parasite population concentrated into a minority of the host population.
(object-oriented programming) Kind of object composition which does not imply ownership.
(linguistics) A component of natural language generation that entails combining syntactic elements.