agrègent

Agrègent is the third-person plural present indicative form of the French verb agréger, meaning to bring together elements to form a whole; to combine, merge, or accumulate. The term is used across fields such as data processing, statistics, ecology, and information management to describe the act of assembling pieces from multiple sources into a single set, summary, or result. In computing and data science, data aggregation refers to operations that summarize values—such as totals, averages, or counts—across groups or categories.

Etymology and related forms: agréger derives from Late Latin aggregare or adgregare, from ad- “toward” + greg- “flock,” reflecting the notion of bringing diverse items together. The noun agrégation exists in French, referring to the act of aggregating in general use or, in academia, to a competitive examination for senior teaching positions. The English cognate is aggregate, and the corresponding verb in English is to aggregate. The words agrégé and agrément are distinct; agréer (with é) means to approve or kindly accept, and is not a direct cognate of agréger.

Usage notes: agrègent appears in sentences describing plural subjects performing aggregation, for example: Ils agrègent les données issues de plusieurs sources. In English-language technical writing, the French term is often translated as “they aggregate,” or the action is described using the English verb aggregate.

Overall, agrègent denotes a deliberate act of combining separate items into a cohesive whole, a concept central to data analysis, systems integration, and interdisciplinary research.