different between aggregation vs anthology

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ?????e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

aggregation (plural aggregations)

1. The act of collecting together (aggregating).
2. The state of being collected into a mass, assemblage, or sum (aggregated).
3. A collection of particulars; an aggregate.
4. (networking) Summarizing multiple routes into one route.
5. (epidemiology) The majority of the parasite population concentrated into a minority of the host population.
6. (object-oriented programming) Kind of object composition which does not imply ownership.

Antonyms

• disgregation

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????????? (anthología, “flower-gathering”), from ????????? (anthologé?, “I gather flowers”), from ????? (ánthos, “flower”) + ???? (lég?, “I gather, pick up, collect”), coined by Meleager of Gadara circa 60 BCE, originally as ???????? (???????? (stéphanos, “garland”)) to describe a collection of poetry, later retitled anthology – see Greek Anthology. Anthologiai were collections of small Greek poems and epigrams, because in Greek culture the flower symbolized the finer sentiments that only poetry can express.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /æn???l?d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /æn???l?d?i/
• Hyphenation: an?thol?ogy
• Rhymes: -?l?d?i

Noun

anthology (plural anthologies)

1. A collection of literary works, such as poems or short stories, especially a collection from various authors.
2. (attributive) Of a work or series containing various stories with no direct relation to one another.
3. (by extension) An assortment of things.
4. The study of flowers.

Derived terms

Related terms

• anther

Translations

See also

• florilegium

References

• anthology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia