Meaning & use

aggregation

noun·Academic

The act of collecting separate items or units together into a single group or total.

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The report relies on the aggregation of survey data from fifty different countries.

News apps perform aggregation, pulling headlines from many sources into one feed.

A note on using this word

Aggregation is common in statistics and technology to describe combining smaller pieces of data into a larger set.

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Words with an opposite meaning

separation

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