Agglutination vs Precipitation - What's the difference?
agglutination | precipitation |
The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See agglutinative.
The clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria, usually in response to a particular antibody.
(meteorology) Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground.
A hurried headlong fall.
(countable, chemistry) A reaction that leads to the formation of a heavier solid in a lighter liquid; the precipitate so formed at the bottom of the container.
(figuratively) Unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste.
As nouns the difference between agglutination and precipitation
is that agglutination is the act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts while precipitation is precipitation, unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste.agglutination
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(en noun)Derived terms
* coagglutinationprecipitation
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- had acted with some precipitation and had probably started out upon a wild-goose chase --
