agglutination

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

agglutination (countable and uncountable, plural agglutinations)

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

Derived terms

• coagglutination
• haemagglutination, hemagglutination
• leucoagglutination, leukoagglutination

Related terms

• agglutinate
• agglutinative
• agglutinant

Translations

act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance

• Bulgarian: слепване (bg) (slepvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 粘合 (zh) (zhānhé), 黏合 (zh) (niánhé)

• Finnish: liimaus, liimautuminen
• French: agglutination (fr) f
• German: Agglutination (de) f
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• Hungarian: ragasztás
• Portuguese: aglutinação (pt) f
• Romanian: aglutinare (ro) f
• Russian: агглютина́ция (ru) f (aggljutinácija), скле́ивание (ru) n (skléivanije)
• Serbo-Croatian: aglutinacija (sh) f
• Spanish: aglutinación (es) f

combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning

• Catalan: aglutinació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 粘著, 粘着 (zh) (niánzhuó)

• Finnish: agglutinaatio (fi)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: agglutináció (hu), agglutinálás
• Japanese: 膠着 (ja) (こうちゃく, kōchaku)
• Korean: 교착 (ko) (gyochak)
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• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: aglutinação (pt) f
• Romanian: aglutinare (ro) f
• Russian: агглютина́ция (ru) f (aggljutinácija)
• Serbo-Croatian: aglutinacija (sh) f
• Spanish: aglutinación (es) f
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria

• Finnish: agglutinaatio (fi)
• Portuguese: aglutinação (pt) f
• Romanian: aglutinare (ro) f
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• Russian: агглютина́ция (ru) f (aggljutinácija)
• Serbo-Croatian: aglutinacija (sh) f
• Spanish: aglutinación (es) f

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Danish

Noun

agglutination c (singular definite agglutinationen, plural indefinite agglutinationer)

1. agglutination

Declension

Declension of agglutination

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	agglutination	agglutinationen	agglutinationer	agglutinationerne
genitive	agglutinations	agglutinationens	agglutinationers	agglutinationernes

Further reading

• “agglutination” in Den Danske Ordbog

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

agglutination f (plural agglutinations)

1. agglutination