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noun

Agglutination n.

The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.

(Physiol.) Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Agglutination" Quotes from Famous Books

... drawing a drop of his blood into a tube, and adding some fresh living typhoid bacilli to it. If the patient had typhoid he will have begun to form the "typhoid-agglutinating" or "typhoid-paralysing" poison in his blood, and the experiment will result in the "agglutination" (sticking together in a lump) of the typhoid bacilli. And so we prove, in a doubtful case, that the patient ...

— More Science From an Easy Chair • Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester

... civilly, readily go and bring the precious teeth, some half rotten, or gnawed by the teeth of a rodent called dezi. I think that mad naturalists name it Aulocaudatus Swindermanus, or some equally wise agglutination of syllables.... My chronometers are all dead; I hope my old watch was sent to Zanzibar; but I have got no letters for years, save some, three years old, at Ujiji. I have an intense and sore longing to finish and retire, and trust that the Almighty may permit ...

— The Personal Life Of David Livingstone • William Garden Blaikie

Words linked to "Agglutination" : haemagglutination, linguistic process, isoagglutination, hemagglutination, chemical change, biological process, agglutination test, chemical action, agglutinating activity, organic process, chemical process