agglutination
/əˌɡluːtɪˈneɪʃən/
noun
- The clumping together of particles, cells, or substances, especially in biology or medicine (e.g., blood cells or bacteria).
- Doctors use agglutination to test for certain diseases in a patient's blood sample.
- In the lab, agglutination was observed when the antibody mixed with the bacteria.
- The agglutination of red blood cells can indicate a person's blood type.
- In linguistics, the process of forming words by adding affixes (prefixes, suffixes) that each have a single meaning, common in languages like Turkish or Swahili.
- Learning about agglutination helps explain why some words in Japanese seem to have many parts.
- Turkish uses agglutination to create long words by adding suffixes to a root.
- Linguists study agglutination to understand how languages build complex meanings.
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