agglutination

By 1989, The Times reported, Davis had “reshaped Gulf & Western from a ragtag agglutination of about 100 businesses to a thriving corporation focused in entertainment, publishing and finance.”

Landsteiner inferred that there must be different types of blood, and that they could be classified based on these observed agglutinations.

Otherwise, like me, you might find yourself marveling at her mastery of language but distracted by wondering how she landed on words like “agglutination” or phrases such as “omniscient homunculus.”

In the 1800s, doctors knew that transfusing blood between individuals could cause red blood cells to clump — a phenomenon called agglutination.

One example is the way Finnish uses agglutination, or builds complex words out of multiple smaller words or parts of words.