aggregation

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aggregation (noun; Latin ad, to; gregare, to collect): 1. Collection or grouping into a mass or sum.

2. A group of individuals comprised of more than a mated pair or family, collecting in the same place, that do not construct nests or rear offspring in a cooperative manner

See also: colony.