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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
agglutination is a noun meaning "a clumping of bacteria or red cells when held together by antibodies (agglutinins)". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a clumping of bacteria or red cells when held together by antibodies (agglutinins)
the building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in the process of combining
the coalescing of small particles that are suspended in solution; these larger masses are then (usually) precipitated
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for agglutination come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.