agglutination

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ag=glu=ti=na=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

agglutination, n. [Cf. F. agglutination.].

•  The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.  [1913 Webster]
•  Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

agglutination

accession, accretion, addition, adherence, adhesion, adjunct, adjunction, affixation, agglomeration, aggregation, annexation, articulation, attachment, augmentation, bond, bracketing, cling, clinging, clotting, clumping, clustering, coagulation, coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness, combination, communication, compaction, compression, concatenation, concentration, concourse, concretion, concurrence, condensation, confluence, congealment, congelation, congeries, conglobation, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, connection, consolidation, convergence, copulation, coupling, densification, gathering, hardening, hookup, increase, inseparability, intercommunication, intercourse, interlinking, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, juxtaposition, knotting, liaison, linkage, linking, marriage, meeting, merger, merging, pairing, prefixation, reinforcement, set, solidification, splice, sticking, suffixation, superaddition, superfetation, superjunction, superposition, supplementation, symbiosis, tie, tie-in, tie-up, unification, union, uniting, yoking

ROGET THESAURUS

agglutination

Coherence

N coherence, adherence, adhesion, adhesiveness, concretion accretion, conglutination, agglutination, agglomeration, aggregation, consolidation, set, cementation, sticking, soldering, connection, dependence, tenacity, toughness, stickiness, inseparability, inseparableness, bur, remora, conglomerate, concrete, cohesive, adhesive, adhering, cohering, tenacious, tough, sticky, united, unseparated, unsessile, inseparable, inextricable, infrangible, compact.