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ag⋅glu⋅ti⋅na⋅tion

  [uh-gloot-n-ey-shuhn]
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–noun
1. the act or process of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance.
2. the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
3. that which is united; a mass or group cemented together.
4. Immunology. the clumping of bacteria, red blood cells, or other cells, due to the introduction of an antibody.
5. Linguistics. a process of word formation in which morphemes, each having one relatively constant shape, are combined without fusion or morphophonemic change, and in which each grammatical category is typically represented by a single morpheme in the resulting word, esp. such a process involving the addition of one or more affixes to a base, as in Turkish, in which ev means “house,” ev-den means “from a house,” and ev-ler-den means “from houses.”
Origin:
1535–45; agglutinate + -ion
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ag·glu·ti·na·tion   (ə-glōōt'n-ā'shən)   
n.  

  1. The act or process of agglutinating; adhesion of distinct parts.

  2. A clumped mass of material formed by agglutination. Also called agglutinate.

  3. Physiology The clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria, usually in response to a particular antibody.

  4. 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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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: ag·glu·ti·na·tion
Pronunciation: &-"glüt-&n-'A-sh&n
Function: noun
: a reaction in whichparticles (as red blood cells or bacteria) suspended in a liquid collect into clumps and which occurs especially as a serological response to a specific antibody
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agglutination ag·glu·ti·na·tion (ə-gl&oomacr;t'n-ā'shən)
n.

  1. The act or process of agglutinating.

  2. The clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria, usually in response to a particular antibody.

  3. A clumped mass of material formed by agglutination. Also called agglutinate.

  4. Adhesion of wound surfaces in healing.

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Science Dictionary
agglutination   (ə-glt'n-ā'shən)  Pronunciation Key 
The clumping together of biologic material, such as red blood cells or bacteria, that is suspended in liquid, usually in response to a particular antibody.
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agglutination

a grammatical process in which words are composed of a sequence of morphemes (word elements), each of which represents not more than a single grammatical category. This term is traditionally employed in the typological classification of languages. Turkish, Finnish, and Japanese are among the languages that form words by agglutination. The Turkish term ev-ler-den "from the houses" is an example of a word containing a stem and two word elements; the stem is ev- "house," the element -ler- carries the meaning of plural, and -den indicates "from." In Wishram, a dialect of Chinook (a North American Indian language), the word acimluda ("He will give it to you") is composed of the elements a- "future," -c- "he," -i- "him," -m- "thee," -1- "to," -ud- "give," and -a "future."

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