Definitions for agglutination

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agglutination ag·glu·ti·na·tion

Spelling: [uh-gloot-n-ey-shuh n]

IPA: /əˌglut nˈeɪ ʃən/

Agglutination is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 580 anagrams from letters in agglutination (aaggiilnnottu).

Definitions for agglutination

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, 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

First recorded in 1535-45; agglutinate + -ion

Examples for agglutination

Ophthalmia, which begins in the left eye, with lachrymation and night agglutination of the eyelids.

Having utilized the technic devised by Teague, I have had no difficulty in performing the agglutination test in plague.

The presence of bivalent cations, especially Ca, also favours the agglutination.

Accretion by chemical precipitations, by welding, by pressure, by agglutination.

Thidreks Saga is not an epic, though it is made by an agglutination of ballads.

It gives many openings for theories of agglutination and adulteration.

Except in this single matter of agglutination reaction, no constant distinction between these varieties has been demonstrated.

This clumping is spoken of as agglutination and the substances produced in the animal are called agglutinins.

They must combine with the foreign cells and also bring about their clumping together, their agglutination.

agglutination or aggregation is carried to its widest extent, and words of inordinate length are not uncommon.