Aggregationnoun
The act of collecting together (aggregating).
Congregationnoun
The act of congregating or collecting together.
Aggregationnoun
The state of being collected into a mass, assemblage, or sum (aggregated).
Congregationnoun
A gathering of faithful in a temple, church, synagogue, mosque or other place of worship. It can also refer to the people who are present at a devotional service in the building, particularly in contrast to the pastor, minister, imam, rabbi etc. and/or choir, who may be seated apart from the general congregation or lead the service (notably in responsory form).
Aggregationnoun
A collection of particulars; an aggregate.
Congregationnoun
A Roman Congregation, a main department of the Vatican administration of the Catholic church.
Aggregationnoun
(networking) Summarizing multiple routes into one route.
Congregationnoun
A corporate body whose members gather for worship, or the members of such a body.
Aggregationnoun
(epidemiology) The majority of the parasite population concentrated into a minority of the host population.
Congregationnoun
Any large gathering of people.
Aggregationnoun
(object-oriented programming) Kind of object composition which does not imply ownership.
Congregationnoun
A group of eagles.
Aggregationnoun
The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.
‘Each genus is made up by aggregation of species.’; ‘A nation is not an idea only of local extent and individual momentary aggregation, but . . . of continuity, which extends in time as well as in numbers, and in space.’;
Congregationnoun
The main body of university staff, comprising academics, administrative staff, heads of colleges, etc.
Aggregationnoun
several things grouped together or considered as a whole
Congregationnoun
The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass.
‘The means of reduction in the fire is but by the congregation of homogeneal parts.’;
Aggregationnoun
the act of gathering something together
Congregationnoun
A collection or mass of separate things.
‘A foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.’;
Congregationnoun
An assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet.
‘He [Bunyan] rode every year to London, and preached there to large and attentive congregations.’;
Congregationnoun
The whole body of the Jewish people; - called also Congregation of the Lord.
‘It is a sin offering for the congregation.’;
Congregationnoun
A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Propaganda, which has charge of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church.
Congregationnoun
The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees.
Congregationnoun
the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557) Lords of the Congregation.
Congregationnoun
a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
Congregationnoun
an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together;
‘a congregation of children pleaded for his autograph’; ‘a great congregation of birds flew over’;
Congregationnoun
the act of congregating
