The phrase "aggregate term" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a term that encompasses a collection or grouping of related items or concepts.
Example: "In the context of environmental studies, 'biodiversity' is often used as an aggregate term to describe the variety of life forms in a given ecosystem."
Alternatives: "collective term" or "general term".
Instead of seeing the mind as the persisting bearer of such transient events as occurrences of cognition, feeling and volition, he treats 'mind' as a kind of aggregate term for bundles of transient mental events.
Soon after, I was caught, tried, convicted and sentenced to an aggregate term of 28 years to life 25 for the murder and three more for drug sales.
Hewitt and the 20-year-old Nalbandian were, in aggregate terms, the youngest pair to contest the men's final, but memories of their meeting will be short.
The Japanese have done quite well in terms of GDP per capita in the last 20 years but not so well in aggregate terms.
America has worst deficit and debt levels than the euro-zone in aggregate terms, yet the dollar is a refuge for investors fleeing the euro.
"Other types of intra-company transfers have evolved over time, particularly those used for third-party contracting in the information technology sector, where it is possible that the UK economy is benefiting in aggregate terms while at the same time some displacement of British workers is occurring," said Metcalf.
It admits that one of the constraints of the IMF data used in its study is that the specific multinational corporations participating in the survey cannot be identified because all responses are confidential and the data is reported in aggregate terms only.
Twitter is still far larger than its much younger competitor Friendfeed in aggregate terms.
They first specify the link among transport systems and regional growth in aggregate terms.
China seems to be both: it is rich in aggregate terms, but poor in per capita terms.
The best reply function for a node i nests both the local average and local aggregate terms.
