Aggregation vs Congregate - What's the difference?
aggregation | congregate |
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.
(rare) Collective; assembled; compact.
* 1605 , (Francis Bacon), The Advancement of Learning , Book II, Chapter IX:
(transitive): To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact.
* Hooker,
* Coleridge,
* Milton,
(intransitive): To come together; to assemble; to meet.
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As a noun aggregation
is .As an adjective congregate is
(rare) collective; assembled; compact.As a verb congregate is
(transitive): to collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact.aggregation
English
Noun
(en noun)congregate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- With this reservation, therefore, we proceed to human philosophy or humanity, which hath two parts: the one considereth man segregate or distributively, the other congregate or in society; so as human philosophy is either simple and particular, or conjugate and civil.
Verb
(congregat)- Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church.
- Cold congregates all bodies.
- The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called Seas.
- Even there where merchants most do congregate .
