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Webster 1913 Edition


Cohesion

Co-he′sion

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
cohésion
. See
Cohere
.]
1.
The act or state of sticking together; close union.
2.
(Physics)
That from of attraction by which the particles of a body are united throughout the mass, whether like or unlike; – distinguished from adhesion, which unites bodies by their adjacent surfaces.
Solids and fluids differ in the degree of
cohesion
, which, being increased, turns a fluid into a solid.
Arbuthnot.
3.
Logical agreement and dependence;
as, the
cohesion
of ideas
.
Locke.

Webster 1828 Edition


Cohesion

COHESION

,
Noun.
s as z.
1.
The act of sticking together; the state of being united by natural attraction, as the constituent particles of bodies which unite in a mass, by a natural tendency; one of the different species of attraction.
2.
Connection; dependence; as the cohesion of ideas. But in this sense, see Coherence.

Definition 2024


cohesión

cohesión

See also: cohesion and cohésion

Spanish

Noun

cohesión f (plural cohesiones)

  1. cohesion