coagulation
noun
the process of coagulating into a thickened mass or clot, such as of blood or cream.
coagulations
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pluralof coagulation.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Their snarling energy is matched by their neighbors: the creepy coagulations of color, plastic, resin, drawing and grommets that form the paintings of KAYA, a collaboration consisting of the artists Kerstin Brätsch and Debo Eilers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2017
Biofilms, dense coagulations of bacteria like dental plaque, are responsible for an estimated 65 percent of bacterial infections and make bacteria more resistant to antibiotics.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2014
Members often point out that veteran judge Professor Lloyd Dallas Herrold of Northwestern University has a weakness for coagulations like "Temptasty," that Procter & Gamble dislikes rhyming entries.
From Time Magazine Archive
These caves we call the Lower Region; and we use them for all coagulations, indurations, refrigerations, and conservations of bodies.
From New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
Boerhaave greatly recommended the use of dandelion in most chronical distempers, and held it capable of resolving all kinds of coagulations, and most obstinate obstructions of the viscera, if it were duly continued.
From The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times by John Thomas Smith
