aggregate

aggregation | Business English

aggregation
noun
uk /ˌæɡrɪˈɡeɪʃən/us
[ C or U ]
a total calculated by adding different amounts, prices, etc.:
The single profit figure is an aggregation of many, earned from completely different markets.
[ C or U ] COMMERCE
a combination of products or services that are sold together
[ U ]
the process of collecting and examining detailed information about people or organizations in order to decide how to market a product, who to lend money to, etc.:
With our data aggregation service, market research companies and government organizations can rely on a single source for their operations.

Examples of aggregation

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Slight aggregations may result in similar prevalences to random or less than random distributions, whereas highly aggregated distributions resulted in poor prevalence values.
We visually examined all of our stimuli for unintended aggregations of dots.
The choice of appropriate fuzzy operators in various aggregations affects the final results significantly.
Individual results are obtained by flat aggregations along the rows and columns in the review matrix.
The hierarchical aggregations stop when the tops of the hierarchies are reached, resulting in the overall results.
All shapes made by aggregations of hexagonal cells are non-convex.
Around each individual is the boundary of its own consciousness, and so, surely, such aggregations make no sense.
Many epidemic diseases cannot persist in small populations; measles, for instance, requires human aggregations of 200,000 to 500,000 people to maintain itself.
Following exploratory analyses, a number of aggregations of the data were made to make the very complex outputs from raw categories more intelligible.
I treat factions, which were complex aggregations of local and national actors simply as individual legislators in what follows.
Mixed-species foraging aggregations and heterospecific attraction in boreal bird communities.
How does a carabid predator find aggregations of slugs in the field?
In this respect fish size might be essential in considering interrelations between the aggregations and myxosporidian infections.
Reporting results: in disaggregated detail first, with aggregations and value judgments later 24.
Indeed, a number of morpho-species characterized by large individual fruit bodies in small aggregations showed low levels of consumption.
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