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n. The act, process, or condition of cohering: exhibited strong cohesion in the family unit.

n. Physics The intermolecular attraction by which the elements of a body are held together.

n. Botany The congenital union of parts of the same kind, such as a calyx of five united sepals.

n. State of cohering, or of working together.

n. Various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together.

n. Growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant.

n. Degree to which different modules in a computing system are functionally dependent on others.

n. Grammatical or lexical relationship between different parts of the same text.

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

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.

n. Logical agreement and dependence.

n. The act or state of cohering, uniting, or sticking together; specifically, in physical, the state in which, or the force by which, the molecules of the same material are bound together, so as to form a continuous homogeneous mass.

n. In botany, the congenital union of one part with another.

n. Connection; dependence; affinity; coherence.

n. (botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals)

n. the state of cohering or sticking together

n. (physics) the intermolecular force that holds together the molecules in a solid or liquid

"Until recently, the term cohesion had but one special meaning to dentists, and that as applied to gold for filling teeth; being understood as the property by which layers of this metal could be united without force so as to be inseparable."

adhesion   

ontogeny    development    ontogenesis    maturation    growing    growth    force   

magnetic cohesion    cohesion figures   

sticking    adherence    adhesion    coherence    cohesiveness    consistence   

Cartesian    Indonesian    Melanesian    Polynesian    Rhodesian    Tunisian    adhesion    artesian    cartesian    lesion   

coherence    teamwork    continuity    solidity    unity    stamina    permanence    elasticity    solidarity    adhesion