aggregation

IPA: ægrʌgˈeɪʃʌn

The act of collecting together, of aggregating.
The state of being collected into a mass, assemblage, or (aggregated) sum.
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.
(object-oriented programming) Kind of object composition which does not imply ownership.
(linguistics) A component of natural language generation that entails combining syntactic elements.

Examples of "aggregation" in Sentences

Their business model of aggregation is against the current trend of fragmentation. — james
As a concept I think this aggregation is an interesting idea, although, executions have thus far been pretty not great.
In many ways Friendster was the perfect model but the fact it crashed and burned begins to disprove that mere aggregation is the answer.
He says - maybe it's true of Manchester United as well - that a big factor in success is what he calls the aggregation of minute di ﬀ erences.
Um, I hate to break it to this columnist, but "aggregation" is the model that the American media industry has been following since at least the 70s.
Anonymous said ... artanis, Alzheimer's is caused by a variety of physical complications, the least of which is protein aggregation (amyloid plaques).
Protein aggregation is the cause of several neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and Creuzfeldt-Jacob disease, as well as pancreatic insufficiency, which causes type 2 diabetes.
This aggregation is little more (and by little more, I mean nothing more) than you entering your username (or a url where a username is non-obvious) and they putting in links to your various profile pages.