| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| coagulate | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to cause (a fluid, such as blood) to change into a soft semisolid mass or (of such a fluid) to change into such a mass; clot; curdle |
| 2. | chem to separate or cause to separate into distinct constituent phases |
| —n | |
| 3. | the solid or semisolid substance produced by coagulation |
| [C16: from Latin coāgulāre to make (a liquid) curdle, from coāgulum rennet, from cōgere to drive together] | |
| co'agulable | |
| —adj | |
| coagula'bility | |
| —n | |
| coagu'lation | |
| —n | |
| coagulative | |
| —adj | |
coagulate co·ag·u·late (kō-āg'yə-lāt')
v. co·ag·u·lat·ed, co·ag·u·lat·ing, co·ag·u·lates
To change from the liquid state to a solid or gel; clot.