Meanings of mere aggregation in English

Here is a new association, but it is a mere aggregation.

This is a true process of self-education; but you see it is no mechanical process of mere aggregation.

The people taken collectively are society, and society is a living organism, not a mere aggregation of individuals.

If the new association is a combination, it is patentable, but if it is a mere aggregation, it is unpatentable.

The origin of the village, in a mere aggregation of tenants of the lord of the manor, is thus vividly suggested.

Either there is a predestined order in the Universe, or else it is mere aggregation, fortuitous yet not without a certain kind of order.

What had originally been pictures of objects-fish ,houses ,andthe like-had come to be represented by mere aggregations of wedge-shaped marks.

Comets reached their farthest points and, mere aggregations of frigid jagged stones and metal, prepared for another plunge back into light and heat and warmth.