AGGREGATION Synonyms: 104 Similar and Opposite Words

aggregation

noun

Definition of aggregation

as in aggregate

a number of parts or individuals gathered or considered together Large aggregations of whales can be spotted here at this time of year. The team based their conclusions on an aggregation of data from various sources.

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Recent Examples of aggregation But what made that possible too, that is the aggregation of all that wealth, is a tax system that’s not the least bit progressive anymore and is becoming less and less progressive. — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 5 Oct. 2026 The cloud is the right home for training and aggregation; decisions increasingly belong at the edge, where latency and sovereignty are physics, not preferences. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026 In a culture of aggregation and AI summary, the stiffest original thinking still feels as supple as a tone poem, and genuine intellectual ambition akin to a secular miracle. — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026 According to ZincFive, this eliminates the need for third-party unmanaged network switches and an additional data aggregation layer. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for aggregation

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Noun

Proteins and blood cells Proteins and DNA can gather on plastic surfaces, and lysozyme, a common test protein, also began clumping into aggregates there.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026
Misfolded tau can also recruit other healthy tau proteins, encouraging them to adopt the same abnormal shape, accumulating as knotted threads known as fibrillar aggregates.

— Mike McRae October 13, New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of aggregate

Noun

Ice accumulation poses a serious threat to aircraft because even a thin layer can disrupt airflow over the wings, reducing lift and making a plane more difficult to control.

— Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Researchers at Washington University found markedly different gut microbiomes in people at the earliest preclinical stages of Alzheimer’s, differences correlated with amyloid and tau accumulation before any cognitive symptoms appeared.

— Holly Baines, STAT, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of accumulation

Noun

Martelly’s registration under a new political grouping, Debloke, will place the council under heavy scrutiny.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2026
In a small farm context, that will be to a grouping of farmers that form a producer unit using the same practices in the same climate.

— SJ Studio, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of grouping

Noun

In Labor of Light (2016), an assemblage of technologies comes together as a kind of altar to the history of video production.

— Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
These are electric cars, which apparently justifies a vaguely techy-sounding alphanumeric assemblage.

— Jason Barlow, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of assemblage

Noun

Now, after the top 25 are picked, conversations can be had about whether the committee wants to re-rank any cluster of teams next to each other.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2026
North Indiana Avenue Apartments A cluster of apartment buildings that face each other in the 100 block of North Indiana Avenue show the growth of multifamily housing along major corridors in northeast Kansas City in the earlier 1900s.

— Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of cluster

Noun

The case originates from a change in admissions policy that began a decade ago, when a consulting group was hired to evaluate how the school system chose students for its middle school magnet programs.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
The money will go to conservation groups and local partners working on species the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies as endangered, critically endangered, or extinct in the wild.

— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of group

Noun

In an exclusive Vogue Business survey published in 2025, our data revealed that 67% of consumers are more likely to buy from fashion brands that show a variety of body sizes in their marketing.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026
Disney offered creators a wide variety of future opportunities, including set visits, press junkets and red carpet interviews with talent.

— Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026

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