Agglutination

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or process of agglutinating; adhesion of distinct parts.
  • n. A clumped mass of material formed by agglutination. Also called agglutinate.
  • n. Physiology The clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria, usually in response to a particular antibody.
  • n. Linguistics The formation of words from morphemes that retain their original forms and meanings with little change during the combination process.
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  • n. The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
  • n. Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See agglutinative.
  • n. The clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria, usually in response to a particular antibody.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
  • n. Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts; that which is united; a mass or group cemented together.
  • n. In philology, the condition of being agglutinate; the process or result of agglutinate combination. See agglutinate, a.
  • n. In Wundt's psychology, the simplest type of apperceptive connection of ideas: a connection in which one is still clearly conscious of the constituent ideas, while the total idea aroused by their conjunction is nevertheless unitary: for example, watch-tower, steamboat.
  • n. In bacteriology, the clumping or coalescence of red blood-corpuscles or bacteria brought about by the action of special agglutinating substances (agglutinins).
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  • n. a clumping of bacteria or red cells when held together by antibodies (agglutinins)
  • n. the building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in the process of combining
  • n. the coalescing of small particles that are suspended in solution; these larger masses are then (usually) precipitated
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    Words that are more generic or abstract
    linguistic process    chemical change    chemical process    chemical action   
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    agglutinative   
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    homogeneousness    clanship    impermeability    osculation    brusk   
     
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