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Agglutination   Listen
noun
Agglutination  n.  
1.
The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
2.
(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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"Agglutination" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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

... Crystals increase by the greater attraction of their sides. Accretion by chemical precipitations, by welding, by pressure, by agglutination. II. Hunger, digestion, why it cannot be imitated out of the body. Lacteals absorb by animal selection or appetency. III. The glands and pores absorb nutritious particles by animal selection. Organic particles of ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... littleness. In the same tongue, a youth is called pilape, a word compounded from the first part of pilsit, innocent, and the latter part of lenape, a man. Thus, it will be observed, a number of parts of words are taken and thrown together, by a process which has been happily termed agglutination, so as to form one word, conveying a complicated idea. There is also an elaborate system of inflection; in nouns, for instance, there is one kind of inflection to express the presence or absence of vitality, and ...
— Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation • Robert Chambers

... 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

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



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