aggregation

  • 11Aggregation — Process in corporate financial planning whereby the smaller investment proposals of each of the firm s operational units are added up and in effect treated as a big picture. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * aggregation ag‧gre‧ga‧tion… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 12aggregation — Process in corporate financial planning whereby the smaller investment proposals of each of the firm s operational units are aggregated and effectively treated as a whole. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * aggregation ag‧gre‧ga‧tion… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 13Aggregation — Zusammenballung; Sammlung; Konglomeration; Ballungsraum; Kulmination; Ballung; Konglomerat; Anhäufung; Akkumulation; Häufung; Ansammlung; …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 14Aggregation — 1. Used in corporate financial planning, aggregation is a process whereby a number of a firm s smaller projects are combined and treated as an individual project. 2. Used in futures markets, aggregation is a principal involving the combination of …

    Investment dictionary

  • 15aggregation — aggregational, adj. /ag ri gay sheuhn/, n. 1. a group or mass of distinct or varied things, persons, etc.: an aggregation of complainants. 2. collection into an unorganized whole. 3. the state of being so collected. 4. Biol., Ecol. a group of… …

    Universalium

  • 16aggregation — May refer to schooling , which involves behavioural grouping of animals; but aggregation is also used to reflect concentration (of fish) for unknown reasons or direct causes such as the concentration of food organisms, or for spawning …

    Fisheries — dictionary

  • 17aggregation — The process of forming adhesions between particles such as cells. Aggregation is usually distinguished from agglutination by the slow nature of the process in that not every encounter between the cells is effective in forming an adhesion …

    Dictionary of molecular biology

  • 18aggrégation — aggrégat et aggrégation et aggréger Voy. agrégat, agrégation, agréger …

    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • 19aggregation —    The formation of aggregates. In drilling fluids, aggregation results in the stacking of the clay platelets face to face; as a result, viscosity and gel strength decrease [6] …

    Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

  • 20aggregation — /ægrəˈgeɪʃən/ (say agruh gayshuhn) noun 1. a combined whole; an aggregate: *We were born according to formula: we are not a hazardous aggregation of mean genes. –christina stead, 1940. 2. the act of collection into an unorganised whole. 3. the… …