The term 'aggregate' can have different meanings according to the type of situation in which it is used. It is important to point out that always something that has been added is that which has been added or integrated to another element, be it an object, a person or a phenomenon. Adding is, in mathematics , the science of adding figures and integrating them into a final number that is new and completely different in essence.
One of the most common and widely used meanings of the term aggregate is precisely when it refers to a sum of numbers. For example, three apples have been added to a drawer that contained twenty, therefore the total of apples is twenty-three. In this sense, and in relation to mathematical questions, the notion of added value also appears . What we know by added value is nothing more than a cost placed on certain products that use raw materials and that, as they are worked and converted into more complex manufactures, increase their final price. The value added tax or VAT is also a taxofficially placed on most of the products traded as long as the State raises capital through the reactivation of social consumption .
Another meaning that the word aggregate may have is when it refers not to numerical values but to human capital . This is clear when speaking, for example, of diplomatic attachés or people who join the delegation of an embassy abroad to fulfill certain positions (for example, the cultural attaché is an individual in charge of developing cultural plans). The aggregate understood as a person can also be seen in the workplace and business in which the collaboration of a person in certain work groups is considered.