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noun

Agglutination n.

The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.

(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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... patient has typhoid by 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 ...

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