Aggregation vs Brood - What's the difference?
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The act of collecting together (aggregating).
The state of being collected into a mass, assemblage, or sum (aggregated).
A collection of particulars; an aggregate.
(networking) summarizing multiple routes into one route.
(epidemiology) the majority of the parasite population concentrated into a minority of the host population.
The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
* Bible, Luke xiii. 34
(uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
The children in one family.
That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
* Chapman
(mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
To protect.
To dwell upon moodily and at length.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
* Tennyson
Aggregation is a related term of brood.
As nouns the difference between aggregation and brood
is that aggregation is while brood is .aggregation
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Noun
(en noun)brood
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Noun
(en noun)- As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
- Flocks of the airy brood , / (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans).
See also
* flock, litter, young, get, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, seed, kin * cicadaVerb
(en verb)- In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.
- Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs.
- He sat brooding about the upcoming battle, fearing the outcome.
- Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit.
- when with downcast eyes we muse and brood