Aggregation vs. Congregation — What's the Difference?

Constituting or amounting to a whole; total

The act of assembling.

(Botany) Crowded or massed into a dense cluster.

A body of assembled people or things; a gathering.

Composed of a mixture of minerals separable by mechanical means.

A group of people gathered for religious worship.

A total considered with reference to its constituent parts; a gross amount

The members of a specific religious group who regularly worship at a church or synagogue.

The mineral materials, such as sand or stone, used in making concrete.

A religious institute in which only simple vows, not solemn vows, are taken.

To gather into a mass, sum, or whole

A division of the Curia.

To amount to; total

The act of congregating or collecting together.

To collect (content from different sources on the internet) into one webpage or newsreader.

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).

To come together or collect in a mass or whole

A Roman Congregation, a main department of the Vatican administration of the Catholic Church.

The act of collecting together (aggregating).

A corporate body whose members gather for worship, or the members of such a body.

The state of being collected into a mass, assemblage, or sum (aggregated).

Any large gathering of people.

A collection of particulars; an aggregate.

A flock of various birds, such as plovers or eagles.

(networking) Summarizing multiple routes into one route.

The main body of university staff, comprising academics, administrative staff, heads of colleges, etc.

(epidemiology) The majority of the parasite population concentrated into a minority of the host population.

The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass.

(object-oriented programming) Kind of object composition which does not imply ownership.

A collection or mass of separate things.

The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.

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.

Several things grouped together or considered as a whole

The whole body of the Jewish people; - called also Congregation of the Lord.

The act of gathering something together

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.

The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees.

The name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557) Lords of the Congregation.

A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church

An assemblage of people or animals or things collected together;

The act of congregating