process of fastening or attaching; compound word made from other words
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Agglutination Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
(n.)
Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutCombination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2.
agglutination
\ag*glu`ti*na"tion\ (&?;), n. [cf. f. agglutination.]
1. the act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
2. (physiol.) combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. see agglutinative, 2.
Noun
1. a clumping of bacteria or red cells when held together by antibodies (agglutinins)
(hypernym) organic process, biological process
(hyponym) hemagglutination, haemagglutination
(derivation) agglutinate
2. the building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in the process of combining
(hypernym) linguistic process
(hyponym) isoagglutination
(derivation) agglutinate
3. the coalescing of small particles that are suspended in solution; these larger masses are then (usually) precipitated
(synonym) agglutinating activity
(hypernym) chemical process, chemical change, chemical action
Agglutination Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
In contemporary linguistics, agglutination usually refers to the kind of morphological derivation in which there is a one-to-one correspondence between affixes and syntactical categories. Languages that use agglutination widely are called agglutinative languages. For example, the Hungarian word hajókon `on ships' may be divided into a root hajó with two endings -k and -on expressing respectively the plural number (hajó-k `ships') and the location `on' something (hajó-n `on a ship'). Moreover, the ending -n is so regular that the Hungarian Wiktionary simply marks this case as "-on/-en/ön" (in English it is called superessive). In contrast to this, in the Czech translation v lodích, the location is expressed by a combination of a separate word (a preposition v `in') and the locative plural ending ích which is added to the stem lod `ship' and cannot be subdivided into a part expressing plural and a part expressing the locative case. Therefore Czech is not an agglutinative language.
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Agglutination Definition from Medicine Dictionaries & Glossaries
noun
action of grouping together of cells (as of bacteria cells in the presence of serum or blood cells when blood of different types is mixed)
agglutination test = (i) test to identify bacteria; (ii) test to identify if a woman is pregnant
action of grouping together of cells (as of bacteria cells in the presence of serum or blood cells when blood of different types is mixed)
agglutination test = (i) test to identify bacteria; (ii) test to identify if a woman is pregnant
