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cohesion

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cohesion (from Latin cohaerere "stick or stay together") or cohesive attraction or cohesive force is the action or property of like molecules sticking together, being mutually attractive . It is an intrinsic property of a substance that is caused by the ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 State of cohering, or of working together. 2 (context physics chemistry English) Various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together. 3 (context biology English) growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant. 4 (context computing ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of cohering or sticking together [syn: coherence , coherency , cohesiveness ] [ant: incoherence ] (botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals) (physics) the intermolecular force that ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from French cohésion , from Latin cohaesionem (nominative cohaesio ) "a sticking together," noun of action from past participle stem of cohaerere "to stick together" (see cohere ).

Usage examples of cohesion.

Romania and Anatolia, so often torn asunder by private ambition, were animated by a strong and invincible tendency of cohesion.

To fixate the assemblage point on any new spot means to acquire cohesion.

Then, by summoning my dreaming attention through staring at individual leaves, I would actually fixate that minute displacement, and my cohesion would make me perceive in terms of the second attention.

Conversely, a layer of liquid ether or of hydride of amyl, of this thickness, were its molecules freed from the thrall of cohesion, would form a column of vapor 38 inches long, at a pressure of 7.

Both Jel and Lavash were yelling too, maintaining the cohesion of their ranks.

Each of these works hallows the authority of feeling, seeks to show how feeling is the primary pulsion and cohesion of life, with enormous moral and political consequences.

With dreadful speed the fading Beam collapses, back, back alid down, losing all cohesion.

The perfect randomness of the one-time system nullifies any horizontal, or lengthwise, cohesion, as in coherent running key or autokey, and its one-time nature bars any vertical assembly in Kasiski or Kerckhoffs columns, as in keys repeated in a single message or among several messages.

If this law of attraction or cohesion were taken away, the material worlds and suns would dissolve in an instant into thin invisible vapor.

They cultivated a clannish sentiment that made for great loyalty but worked against the cohesion needed if the Vendean army was ever to be more than an ephemeral confederation of resistance bands.

Already Jan had gone off to the eternal realm of card houses and castles in Spain, where men believe in happiness, whereas the Home Guards and I -- for at this moment Oskar counted himself among the Home Guards -- stood amid brick walls, in stone corridors, beneath ceilings with plaster cornices, all so intricately interlocked with walls and partitions that the worst was to be feared for the day when, in response to one set of circumstances or another, all this patchwork we call architecture would lose its cohesion.

Indeed, cohesion increases as we pass from the gaseous, through the liquid, to the solid state of matter.

Mankind perceives the world we know, in the terms we do, only because we share energetic uniformity and cohesion.

His contention was that mankind perceives the world we know, in the terms we do, only because we share energetic uniformity and cohesion.

The dissolution of Sykes Manor was still ongoing, the remaining bits and pieces slowly losing cohesion and joining the nebula of floating debris.