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Grammar : Noun
Spell : uh-gloot-n-ey-shuh n
Phonetic Transcription : əˌglut nˈeɪ ʃən



Definition of agglutination

Origin :
  • 1540s, from Latin agglutinationem (nominative agglutinatio), noun of action from past participle stem of agglutinare "fasten with glue," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + glutinare "to glue," from gluten "glue," from PIE *glei- (see glue (n.)). Philological sense first recorded 1650s, in agglutinative.
  • As in union : noun merger, joining
Example sentences :
  • It gives many openings for theories of agglutination and adulteration.
  • Extract from : « Epic and Romance » by W. P. Ker
  • Thidreks Saga is not an epic, though it is made by an agglutination of ballads.
  • Extract from : « Epic and Romance » by W. P. Ker
  • Accretion by chemical precipitations, by welding, by pressure, by agglutination.
  • Extract from : « Zoonomia, Vol. I » by Erasmus Darwin
  • Having utilized the technic devised by Teague, I have had no difficulty in performing the agglutination test in plague.
  • Extract from : « Plague » by Thomas Wright Jackson
  • Agglutination or aggregation is carried to its widest extent, and words of inordinate length are not uncommon.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 3 » by Hubert Howe Bancroft
  • This clumping is spoken of as agglutination and the substances produced in the animal are called agglutinins.
  • Extract from : « The Fundamentals of Bacteriology » by Charles Bradfield Morrey
  • They must combine with the foreign cells and also bring about their clumping together, their agglutination.
  • Extract from : « The Fundamentals of Bacteriology » by Charles Bradfield Morrey
  • Ophthalmia, which begins in the left eye, with lachrymation and night agglutination of the eyelids.
  • Extract from : « New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers » by Various
  • Except in this single matter of agglutination reaction, no constant distinction between these varieties has been demonstrated.
  • Extract from : « Food Poisoning » by Edwin Oakes Jordan
  • The presence of bivalent cations, especially Ca, also favours the agglutination.
  • Extract from : « The Organism as a Whole » by Jacques Loeb

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