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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


cohesion

cohesion

See also: cohésion and cohesión

English

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Noun

cohesion (usually uncountable, plural cohesions)

  1. State of cohering, or of working together.
    Unit cohesion is important in the military.
  2. (physics, chemistry) Various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together.
  3. (biology) Growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant.
  4. (computing) Degree to which functionally related elements in a computing system belong together.
  5. (linguistics) Grammatical or lexical relationship between different parts of the same text.

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References

  • cohesion” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).