agglutination

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
2. (countable, uncountable) Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See agglutinative.
3. (countable, uncountable) The clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria, usually in response to a particular antibody.

Synonyms

adhesion

cohesion

cementation

agglutinating activity

attachment

fusion

unite

coherence

adhesiveness

cohesiveness

conherence

jellied

soldering

stalemate

stickiness

adherence

weld

sticking to

clinging to

clumping

Translations

agglutination

agglutinazione

aglutinação

aglutinació

aglutinación

Agglutination

συγκόλληση

sinterização

Klumpen

Bindemittel

Verschmelzung

Kohäsion

Haften

aglutinament

Etymology

Cognate with Spanish: aglutinación

Cognate with French: agglutiner

Cognate with German: Agglutination

In summary

Multiple origins. The oldest usage, in relation to tissues adhering or healing in medical contexts, appears in the 16th century, from French agglutination. The linguistic sense derived from this usage during the early 19th century. The sense of gluing or cementing objects together in other contexts is from New Latin agglutinatio, from Latin agglūtinō (“glue; fasten to”) + -iō (a suffix used to form nouns). Compare Spanish aglutinación (“uniting; (linguistic) agglutination”), French agglutiner (“to paste together”, verb), and German Agglutination (“(linguistic) agglutination”) and Agglutinierung (“(biological) adhering, clumping”).