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AGGLUTINATION (Lat. ad, and gluten, glutinare, literally to fasten together with glue)

AGGLUTINATION (See also:
LAT
Lat. ad, and See also:
GLUTEN
gluten, glutinare, literally to fasten together with See also:
GLUE (from the O. Fr. glu, bird-lime, from the Late Lat. gluten, glus, glue)
glue) , a See also:

TERM

term used technically in philologyfor the method of word-formation by which two significant words or roots are joined together in a single word to See also:

EXPRESS (through the French from the past participle of the Lat. exprimere, to press out, by transference used of representing objects in painting or sculpture, or of thoughts, &c. in words)

express a See also:

COMBINATION (Lat. combinare, to combine)

combination of the two meanings each of which retains its force. This juxtaposition or conjoining of roots is characteristic of See also:

LANGUAGES

languages such as the See also:

TURKISH

Turkish and See also:

JAPANESE

Japanese, which are there-fore known as agglutinative, as opposed to others, known generically as inflexional, in which See also:

DIFFERENCES, CALCULUS OF (Theory of Finite Differences)

differences of termination or combinations in which all See also:

SEPARATE

separate identity disappears are predominant. The term was also formerly used by associationist philosophers for those See also:

MENTAL

mental associations which were regarded as peculiarly See also:

close. Combination in its simplest See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form has been called Agglutination by W. See also:

WUNDT, WILHELM MAX (1832— )

Wundt.

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