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Condense vs Aggregate - What's the difference?

condense | aggregate |

As a verb condense

is .

As an adjective condense

is condensed.

As a noun aggregate is

.

condense

English

Alternative forms

* condence

Verb

  • To decrease size or volume by concentration toward the essence.
    • An abridged dictionary can be further condensed to pocket size.
    Boiling off water condenses a thin sauce into a soupier mixture.
  • To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate.
  • * Milton
    • In what shape they choose, / Dilated or condensed , bright or obscure.
  • * Motley
    • The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation.
  • (chemistry) To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.

    • Synonyms

    * (to decrease size or volume) minify

    Antonyms

    * extend * magnify

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Condensed; compact; dense.
    • The huge condense bodies of planets. — Bentley.
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    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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