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agglutination|əˌgl(j)uːtɪˈneɪʃən|
[ad. L. agglūtinātiōn-em, n. of action f. agglūtinā-re: see agglutinate a.]
1. The action of agglutinating or gluing together; the state of adhesion or cohesion.
1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 C iij b, The causes that let and hyndre the agglutynacyon. a1655Vines Lords Supper (1677) 402 Reputed Christians and believers, by an outward profession and agglutination. 1802Smithson in Phil. Trans. XCIII. 27 The sort of agglutination which happens between the particles of subsided..precipitates. 1878Bell tr. Gegenbauer's Comp. Anat. 83 Some are distinguished by the agglutination of foreign bodies—cemented grains of sand.
2. Philol. The combination of simple or root words into compound terms, without material change of form or loss of meaning.
1830Coleridge Table Talk 7 May, The Platt-Deutsch was a compact language like the English, not admitting much agglutination. 1869Farrar Fam. Speech iv. (1873) 125 Agglutination may be described as that principle of linguistic structure which consists in the mere placing of unaltered roots side by side.
†3. Astron. (See quot.) Obs.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Agglutination is used by some Astronomers to denote the meeting of two or more stars in the same part of the zodiac. Agglutination is more peculiarly understood of the seeming coalition of several stars, so as to form a nebulous star.
4. That which is agglutinated or cemented together; a mass or group formed by the adhesion of separate things.
1615Crooke Body of Man 937 Aboue the forehead as farre as to the scaly agglutinations. 1846Grote Greece II. ii. ii. 344 Sparta was..but a mere agglutination of five adjacent villages. 1877Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 50 The formation of thickenings, adhesions, or agglutinations in connection with the membrane. |