The Open Dictionary

agglutinate

verb

UK/əˈɡluː.tɪ.neɪt/
US/əˈɡluː.tə.neɪt/

Definitions of agglutinate verb

  1. TransitiveIntransitive

    to cause to stick together or to become stuck together.

    • Blood platelets in a healthy body will rapidly agglutinate.

    • Barley meal will agglutinate and form clumps in high, tropical humidity.

    • The antibody caused the red blood cells to agglutinate in 70% of the individuals tested in the study.

  2. TransitiveIntransitivelanguagespecialized

    to combine or be combined to form new words or parts of words.

    • These languages demonstrate a tendency to agglutinate words.

    • Turkish is an example of a language that uses an agglutinating morphology.

    • In some languages, agglutination modifies the meaning of a word through multiple suffixes.