Definition of cohesion

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Cohesion (n.) The act or state of sticking together; close union.

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Cohesion :: Cohesion (n.) The act or state of sticking together; close union.
Continuity :: Continuity (n.) the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers..
Adnate :: Adnate (a.) Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts.
Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks..
Hardness :: Hardness (n.) The cohesion of the particles on the surface of a body, determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be itself scratched;-measured among minerals on a scale of which diamond and talc form the extremes..
Cohesible :: Cohesible (a.) Capable of cohesion.
Incoherent :: Incoherent (a.) Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of material substances.
Solid :: Solid (n.) A substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among its particles; a substance not fluid.
Coalescent :: Coalescent (a.) Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting..
Attraction :: Attraction (n.) An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation..
Consolidation :: Consolidation (n.) To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation.
Discontinue :: Discontinue (v. i.) To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.
Slacken :: Slacken (v. t.) To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime..
Adnation :: Adnation (n.) The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.
Cohesion :: Cohesion (n.) 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..
Coherency :: Coherency (n.) A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion.
Cohesive :: Cohesive (a.) Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force..
Concrete :: Concrete (v. t.) To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles..
Adhesion :: Adhesion (n.) The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.
Flaw :: Flaw (n.) A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase..
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