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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The act or process of agglutinating; adhesion of distinct parts.
  2. n. A clumped mass of material formed by agglutination. Also called agglutinate.
  3. n. Physiology The clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria, usually in response to a particular antibody.
  4. n. Linguistics The formation of words from morphemes that retain their original forms and meanings with little change during the combination process.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. 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.
  2. n. In philology, the condition of being agglutinate; the process or result of agglutinate combination. See agglutinate, a.
  3. 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.
  4. n. In bacteriology, the clumping or coalescence of red blood-corpuscles or bacteria brought about by the action of special agglutinating substances (agglutinins).

Wiktionary

  1. n. The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
  2. n. Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See agglutinative.
  3. n. The clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria, usually in response to a particular antibody.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
  2. n. (Physiol.) Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a clumping of bacteria or red cells when held together by antibodies (agglutinins)
  2. n. the building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in the process of combining
  3. n. the coalescing of small particles that are suspended in solution; these larger masses are then (usually) precipitated

Examples

  • “Thus, it will be observed, a number of parts of words are taken and thrown together, by a process which has been happily termed agglutination, so as to form one word, conveying a complicated idea.”

    Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

  • “They clump together cells bearing antigens (e.g., bacteria and [[erythrocyte]] s) in a process called '' 'agglutination' ''.”

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  • “Fewer agencies are more of a mess than DHS, a Frankenstein-like agglutination of 170,000 federal employees from different bureaucratic and law-enforcement cultures, transformed into a hive of incompetence and cronyism under Bush.”

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  • “His last Tweet recommends a fatuous Robert Kaplan op-ed contending that the Muslim world is one undistinguishable agglutination of grievance.”

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  • “Semen samples that show sperm clumping agglutination of one sperm head to another or one tail to another usually signal the presence of an infection or antisperm antibodies.”

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  • “Thus I think we now have a sensible solution to the reconstruction of the Old IE objective endings preceding the agglutination of “indicative” postclitic demonstrative *əi PIE *-i:”

    Archive 2008-10-01

  • “This agglutination is precisely what obscured the original penultimate accent of the bare nominative singular, making it now a word accented on the antepenultimate syllable third-to-last syllable.”

    Sporadic phonetic changes in the Indo-European case system

  • “And I haven't even explained case agglutination yet e.g. -clel from locative -cle plus genitive -l.”

    Enclitics and noun phrases in Etruscan

  • “And that this approach leads to a more elegant and internally consistent programming language ("crystallization of style"), rather than a mix of human memory intensive bits and pieces ("agglutination of features")”

    Archive 2007-09-01

  • “But they all seem to be either an "agglutination of features" or a "crystallization of style.”

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  1. isoagglutination
  2. Widal test
  3. haemagglutination
  4. hemagglutination
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  2. hemoagglutinin
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  6. agglutinable
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  6. agglutinationist
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  • jmjarmstrong JM is attempting the proidentificationment of the health food of the agglutination. Feb 14, 2010

  • valse Yeah, I think even though German isn't considered an agglutinative language like Finnish or Turkish, the way it forms nouns is agglutinative. It just refers to how many morphemes you can smash into one lexical unit. Right? Jul 1, 2007

  • seanahan German is not considered an agglutinative language. I don't think portmanteaus are either. I'm not entirely clear on why though. I'll have to do some more reading. Jul 1, 2007

  • slumry Thanks. This is wonderful fun. Is the German method of forming nouns also agglutinative? And are portmanteau words also an example of agglutination? I love to learn about language formation/evolution. Jun 30, 2007

  • seanahan The Turkish language is agglutanative.

    The rest is a reference to the They Might Be Giants song. Jun 30, 2007

  • slumry Stumped again, seanahan. I think that there is a referent that I don't get. Turks? Jun 30, 2007

  • seanahan Why do they agglutinate their words?

    That's nobodies business but the Turks. Jun 29, 2007

  • slumry Yes, oatmeal is agglutinous, isn't it. Jun 29, 2007

  • reesetee Sounds like oatmeal to me. Jun 29, 2007

  • slumry noun: a clumped mass of material formed by agglutination. Jun 28, 2007

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