agglutination

[ 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.

  1. that which is united; a mass or group cemented together.

  2. Immunology. the clumping of bacteria, red blood cells, or other cells, due to the introduction of an antibody.

  3. 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, especially 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 of agglutination

1
First recorded in 1535–45; agglutinate + -ion

Other words from agglutination

  • an·ti·ag·glu·ti·na·tion, adjective
  • in·ter·ag·glu·ti·na·tion, noun

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British Dictionary definitions for agglutination

agglutination

/ (əˌɡluːtɪˈneɪʃən) /


noun
  1. the act or process of agglutinating

  2. the condition of being agglutinated; adhesion

  1. a united mass or group of parts

  2. chem the formation of clumps of particles in a suspension

  3. biochem proteinaceous particles, such as blood cells and bacteria, that form clumps in antibody–antigen reactions

  4. immunol the formation of a mass of particles, such as erythrocytes, by the action of antibodies

  5. linguistics the building up of words from component morphemes in such a way that these undergo little or no change of form or meaning in the process of combination

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Scientific definitions for agglutination

agglutination

[ ə-glōōt′n-āshən ]


  1. 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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