aglutinação

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin agglutinatio. By surface analysis, aglutinar +‎ -ção.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: a‧glu‧ti‧na‧ção

Noun

aglutinação f (plural aglutinações)

  1. agglutination (act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance)
  2. (linguistics) agglutination (combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning)
  3. (grammar, phonetics) a blend with the loss of one or more phonemes
    Coordinate term: justaposição
    A palavra "planalto" é resultado do processo de aglutinação entre as palavras "plano" e "alto".
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  4. (biology, immunology) agglutination (clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria)