aggregate

AG-rih-gitnoun

Meaning a whole made by adding many parts together; a total

Memory hook ADD the GREG (flock) through the GATE. Farmer Lin counts the sheep from every field as they trot through one gate; the grand total of the whole flock is the aggregate.

The aggregate of all the class’s penny jars came to almost forty dollars.

In context No single gift to the shelter was large, but the aggregate was impressive: hundreds of small donations added up to enough for a new roof.

Similar total, sum, whole, mass

Opposite part, portion, fraction

From Latin aggregare, “to add to a flock, to join”: ad- (to) + grex (flock).

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