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Combined vs Aggregate - What's the difference?

combined | aggregate |

As adjectives the difference between combined and aggregate

is that combined is resulting from the addition of several sources, parts, elements, aspects, etc. able to be united together, to converge while aggregate is formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.

As verbs the difference between combined and aggregate

is that combined is past tense of combine while aggregate is to bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.

As a noun aggregate is

a mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.

combined

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Resulting from the addition of several sources, parts, elements, aspects, etc. able to be united together, to converge.
    • The combined efforts of the emergency workers kept the river from going over its banks, barely.

    Antonyms

    * uncombined * divided * separated

    Verb

    (head)
  • (combine)
    • The cook combined equal parts chocolate and vanilla batter in the cake.

    aggregate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.(rfex)
  • A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.(rfex)
  • (mathematics, obsolete) A set (collection of objects).
  • (music) The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
  • (roofing) Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
  • Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements, especially the gravel and sand added to concrete. (technical)

    • Synonyms

    * mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars: cluster

    See also

    * twelve-tone technique * serialism

    References

    * DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465, Ch. 6.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up
  • Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.
  • Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
    • aggregate glands.
  • (botany) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
  • Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
  • United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.

    • Verb

    (aggregat)
  • To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.
    • The aggregated soil .
  • To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
  • To amount in the aggregate to.
    • ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels .

    Antonyms

    * segregate

    References

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