agglutination

Noun

1. a clumping of bacteria or red cells when held together by antibodies (agglutinins)
   • Less specific
     • organic process
     • biological process
   • More specific
     • hemagglutination
     • haemagglutination
     • isoagglutination
   • Related
     • agglutinate
2. the building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in the process of combining
   • Less specific
     • linguistic process
   • Related
     • agglutinate
3. the coalescing of small particles that are suspended in solution; these larger masses are then (usually) precipitated
   • Synonyms
     • agglutinating activity
   • Less specific
     • chemical process
     • chemical change
     • chemical action

The following are the words that are in the New Word Project:

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The definition for this word taken from the Terminology app, which is based on the Princeton University’s WordNet lexical database. If you are interested in how I created this resource and how I add new words to it, you can see my blog post Title of Blog Post.