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The act or process of combining many separate elements into a whole.

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  1. n. The act or process of combining many separate elements into a whole.
  2. n. The word/formation">formation of a word by the combination of several simple words, as in the aboriginal languages of America; agglutination.
  3. 1. The act or word/process">process of word/combining">combining many separate elements into a whole. 2. (Philol.) The formation of a word by the combination of several simple words, as in the aboriginal languages of America; agglutination. Latham.
  4. The word/formation">formation of a word by the combination of several simplewords, as in the aboriginal languages of America; agglutination.Latham.
  5. n. The act or word/process">process of word/combining">combining many separate elements into a whole. n. The formation of a word by the combination of several simple words, as in the aboriginal languages of America; agglutination.