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ag·glu·ti·na·tion    Audio Help   [uh-gloot-n-ey-shuhn] Pronunciation Key
–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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agglutination, in biochemistry: see immunity.

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