AGGLUTINATION (

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• LAT

Lat. ad, and

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• GLUTEN

gluten, glutinare, literally to fasten together with

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• GLUE (from the O. Fr. glu, bird-lime, from the Late Lat. gluten, glus, glue)

glue)  , a 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 express a combination of the two meanings each of which retains its force . This juxtaposition or conjoining of roots is characteristic of languages such as the Turkish and Japanese, which are there-fore known as agglutinative, as opposed to others, known generically as inflexional, in which differences of termination or combinations in which all separate identity disappears are predominant . The term was also formerly used by associationist philosophers for those mental associations which were regarded as peculiarly close . Combination in its simplest form has been called Agglutination by W . Wundt .