adjective
- sticking or clumping together to form a mass
- relating to languages that form words by joining morphemes together
Usage: medical; scientific
Usage: linguistics
Examples
- The agglutinating bacteria formed visible clumps in the test tube.
- Blood cells were agglutinating when mixed with the antibody solution.
- Turkish is an agglutinating language that builds complex words from simple roots.
- The agglutinating properties of the substance made it useful as a binding agent.
- Researchers studied the agglutinating reaction under the microscope.
- Finnish demonstrates agglutinating characteristics in its word formation.
- The agglutinating particles settled at the bottom of the container.