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What is the difference between aggregate and concrete?

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In lang=en terms the difference between aggregate and concrete

is that aggregate is the full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches while concrete is a term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.

As nouns the difference between aggregate and concrete

is that aggregate is a mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole while concrete is a building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate including gravel and sand.

As adjectives the difference between aggregate and concrete

is that aggregate is formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up while concrete is particular, perceivable, real.

As verbs the difference between aggregate and concrete

is that aggregate is to bring together; to collect into a mass or sum while concrete is to cover with or encase in concrete; often constructed as concrete over.

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

    * English heteronyms ----

    concrete

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Particular, perceivable, real.
  • Fuzzy videotapes and distorted sound recordings are not concrete evidence that bigfoot exists.
  • * {{quote-news
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  • Not abstract.
  • Once arrested, I realized that handcuffs are concrete , even if my concept of what is legal wasn’t.
  • * John Stuart Mill
  • The names of individuals are concrete , those of classes abstract.
  • * I. Watts
  • Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to, some subject to which it belongs.
  • United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form.
  • * Bishop Burnet
  • The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state.
  • Made of concrete building material.
  • The office building had concrete flower boxes out front.

    Synonyms

    * (perceivable) tangible * (not abstract) tangible

    Antonyms

    * (perceivable) intangible * (not abstract) intangible, abstract

    Noun

    (wikipedia concrete) (-)
  • A building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate including gravel and sand.
  • The road was made of concrete that had been poured in large slabs.
  • A solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particles.
  • * 1661 , , p. 26:
  • "...upon the suppos’d (term) made by the fire, of the former sort of Concretes , there are wont to emerge Bodies resembling those which they take for the Elements...
  • (US) A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.
  • * 2010 , June Naylor, Judy Wiley, Insiders' Guide to Dallas and Fort Worth (page 54)
  • Besides cones, Curley's serves sundaes, and concretes —custard with all sorts of yummy goodness blended in, like pecans, caramel, almonds,
  • * John Lutz, Diamond Eyes (page 170)
  • When Nudger and Claudia were finished eating they drove to the Ted Drewes frozen custard stand on Chippewa and stood in line for a couple of chocolate chip concretes .
  • (logic) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
  • * John Stuart Mill
  • The concretes "father" and "son" have, or might have, the abstracts "paternity" and "filiety".
  • Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
  • Derived terms

    * -crete * reinforced concrete * shotcrete

    See also

    * cement * mortar * UHPC

    Verb

    (concret)
  • To cover with or encase in concrete; often constructed as concrete over .
  • I hate grass, so I concreted over my lawn.
  • To solidify.
  • Josie’s plans began concreting once she fixed a date for the wedding.
  • To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body.
  • * Arbuthnot
  • The blood of some who died of the plague could not be made to concrete .

    Derived terms

    * concrete jungle * concretion * concretize/concretise * concrete canyon ----