agglutinate
Fuse into mass
Agglutinate means to stick or clump together, or to cause things to do so.
The term appears most often in technical contexts: in biology, cells or particles agglutinate when they cluster into clumps; in linguistics, agglutinative languages like Turkish build words by stringing together distinct meaningful units.
The root sense is gluing things into a mass.
Apt to adhere
- bondBinding tie or connection
- cementCalcium powder binding agent
- gumSticky plant secretion
- resinViscous plant secretion
paste · mucilage · epoxy · cohesion · cling · adherent · adhesive · tacky
Smallest meaningful language unit
- affixWord-part modifier
- suffixWord-ending addition
- prefixRoot-modifying front element
- inflectionWord form alteration
conjugation · declension · synthetic · morphology · derivational · grammatical · Turkic · Bantu
sticky
Apt to adhere
resin · paste · mucilage · epoxy · cohesion · cling · adherent · adhesive · tacky · viscous
morpheme
Smallest meaningful language unit
inflection · conjugation · declension · synthetic · morphology · derivational · grammatical · Turkic · Bantu · Swahili
platelet
Blood's clotting fragment
bacteria · colony · biofilm · thrombus · hemostasis · antibody · lectin · clotting · plasma
cluster
Gathered group nearby
conglomerate · aggregate · accrete · congeal · glob · cake · mat · fuse · consolidate · amass
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