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coagulation

Today it means: The precipitation of suspended particles as they increase in size by any of several physical or chemical processes. Full definition →

Middle French coagulation ← Latin coagulatio, coagulationem

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Latin · derived fromcoagulatio, coagulationem
Middle French · borrowed fromcoagulation
English todaycoagulation

Borrowed from Middle French coagulation, from Latin coagulatio, coagulationem. Morphologically coagulate + -ion.

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