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Polysynthesis

Pol`y*syn"the*sis\, n. [Poly- + synthesis.]

1. The act or process of combining many separate elements into a whole.

2. (Philol.) The formation of a word by the combination of several simple words, as in the aboriginal languages of America; agglutination. --Latham.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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