aggregating

Gathering into one

Aggregating is gathering separate items into a combined whole.

Data gets aggregated into reports, news gets aggregated on websites, small purchases get aggregated into bulk orders.

The word emphasizes collection from multiple sources: The app works by aggregating reviews from across the internet.

Where collecting might suggest random accumulation, aggregating implies systematic combination for analysis or efficiency.

collecting

accumulating

Gathering in increasing quantity

assembling · harvesting · curating · extracting · mining · sourcing · stockpiling · obtaining · procuring · retrieving

combining

merging

Blending into one

coalescing · fusing · blending · amalgamating · synthesizing · pooling · converging · joining · combining · melding

grouping

sorting

Arranging into sequence

batching · organizing · structuring · collating · segmenting · bucketing · binning · partitioning · nesting · bracketing

summation

totaling

Calculating a sum

calculating · tabulating · computing · averaging · subtotaling · cumulating · enumerating · quantifying · rolling up · netting

computing

datacenter

Facility housing networked computers

scalability · redundancy · virtualization · cloud · analytics · pipeline · batch · streaming · sharding · partitioning

Categories
Opposites
collection vs. separation

aggregatingdispersing

Spreading widely apart

scattering · distributing · spreading · separating · diffusing

unity vs. individuation

aggregatingdisaggregating

Separating combined elements

dividing · decomposing · disintegrating · breaking down · segmenting

Phrases
Family

aggregation, aggregations

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Rated G