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Webster 1913 Edition
Cohesion
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 ideasLocke.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cohesion
COHESION
,Noun.
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
English
Alternative forms
- cohæsion (archaic)
Noun
cohesion (usually uncountable, plural cohesions)
- State of cohering, or of working together.
- Unit cohesion is important in the military.
- (physics, chemistry) Various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together.
- (biology) Growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant.
- (computing) Degree to which functionally related elements in a computing system belong together.
- (linguistics) Grammatical or lexical relationship between different parts of the same text.
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Translations
the state of cohering, or of sticking together
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the various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together
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the growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant
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References
- “cohesion” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).