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agglutinate

[ verb uh-gloot-n-eyt; adjective uh-gloot-n-it, -eyt ]

verb (used with or without object)

agglutinated, agglutinating.
  1. to unite or cause to adhere, as with glue.
  2. Immunology. to clump or cause to clump, as bacteria or blood platelets.
  3. Linguistics. to form by agglutination.


adjective

  1. united by or as by glue.

agglutinate

verb

  1. to adhere or cause to adhere, as with glue
  2. linguistics to combine or be combined by agglutination
  3. tr to cause (bacteria, red blood cells, etc) to clump together
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. united or stuck, as by glue
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈܳپԲԳ, adjective
  • ˈܳپԲ, adjective
  • ˌܳپԲˈٲ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ··پ····ٲ [uh, -gloot-n-, uh, -, bil, -i-tee], noun
  • ·t·· adjective
  • t··t·Բٱ verb (used without object) interagglutinated interagglutinating
  • ԴDza·t·ԲiԲ adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of agglutinate1

1535–45; < Latin ūپٳܲ (past participle of ūپ ), equivalent to ag- ag- + ūپ- (stem of ūٱ glue) + -ٳܲ -ate 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of agglutinate1

C16: from Latin ūپ to glue to, from gluten glue
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The agglutinated heads represent “all her children,” she added — but also perhaps “her other selves.”

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Ten feet square, it agglutinates irregularly alternating triangles of pink, scarlet and wine into a syncopated pattern that seems to shift and fizzle.

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Ms. Humphries is best known for shimmering, burbling abstract paintings that agglutinate stenciled marks, typographical stutters, and deceptive spills and splashes that in fact result from careful composition.

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These agglutinates accumulate over time and can make up 60 to 70 percent of mature regolith samples.

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It urges those who work in it to agglutinate and machinate.

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