agglutination

n. process of fastening or attaching; compound word made from other words

In linguistics, agglutination is the morphological process of adding affixes to the base of a word. Languages that use agglutination widely are called agglutinative languages. These languages are often contrasted with fusional languages and isolating languages. However, both fusional and isolating languages may use agglutination in the most-often-used constructs, and use agglutination heavily in certain contexts, such as word derivation. This is the case in English, which is an isolating language, but has an agglutinated plural marker -(e)s and derived words such as shame·less·ness.
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Noun
1. a clumping of bacteria or red cells when held together by antibodies (agglutinins)
(hypernym) organic process, biological process
(hyponym) hemagglutination, haemagglutination
(derivation) agglutinate
2. the building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in the process of combining
(hypernym) linguistic process
(hyponym) isoagglutination
(derivation) agglutinate
3. the coalescing of small particles that are suspended in solution; these larger masses are then (usually) precipitated
(synonym) agglutinating activity
(hypernym) chemical process, chemical change, chemical action

n. agglutination, process of fastening or attaching; compound word made from other words

n. agglutination, process of fastening or attaching