膠こう着ちゃく

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

adhesion; sticking together

Physical sense of things sticking or being glued together; also used in technical contexts like linguistics for agglutination.

• 高こう温おんで樹じゅ脂しが膠こう着ちゃくした。

  The resin adhered at high temperature.

• 膠こう着ちゃく語ごでは、接せつ辞じが次つぎ々つぎと膠こう着ちゃくする。

  In agglutinative languages, affixes stick to each other one after another.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

deadlock; stalemate; standstill

Figurative extension: a situation where progress is stuck, often used in politics, negotiations, or games. Frequently appears in the compound 膠着状態.

See also: 膠着状態

• 交こう渉しょうは膠こう着ちゃく状じょう態たいに陥おちいった。

  The negotiations fell into a deadlock.

• 試し合あいは膠こう着ちゃくしたまま延えん長ちょう戦せんに入はいった。

  The game remained stalemated and went into overtime.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

agglutination (linguistics)

Technical linguistic term for the morphological process where morphemes are joined together with little change.

• 日本にほん語ごの動どう詞し活かつ用ようは膠こう着ちゃくの例れいとしてよく挙あげられる。

  Japanese verb conjugation is often cited as an example of agglutination.