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An aggregation is a collection of separate things gathered together and treated as one group or one whole. You will meet this word in science, as an aggregation of cells or of data, and in business and , where a news website that is an 'aggregator' collects, or aggregates, articles from many other sources into one place. The key idea is many small things combined into one bigger group, often so they can be measured, viewed, or compared together.
聚集；集合體
組成ag- (a form of 'ad-', meaning toward) + greg (from Latin 'grex', flock or group) + -ation (the act or result of doing something). Literally 'the act of gathering into a flock.'
同家族的字
- aggregatesame root, meaning a total formed by combining separate amounts, or to combine into a total
- gregarioussame root greg, describing someone who enjoys being in groups of people, sociable
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
aggregationnoun/æɡɹəˈɡeɪʃən/
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The act of collecting together, of aggregating.
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The state of being collected into a mass, assemblage, or (aggregated) sum.
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A collection of particulars; an aggregate.
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computingengineeringmathematicsSummarizing multiple routes into one route.
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epidemiologymedicinesciencesThe majority of the parasite population concentrated into a minority of the host population.
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Kind of object composition which does not imply ownership.
- The difference between an association and an aggregation is entirely conceptual and is focused strictly on semantics.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA component of natural language generation that entails combining syntactic elements.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。