单词 | agglutination |
释义 | agglutination /euh glooht'n ay"sheuhn/, n. 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. Immunol. the clumping of bacteria, red blood cells, or other cells, due to the introduction of an antibody. 5. Ling. 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." [1535-45; AGGLUTINATE + -ION] |
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