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cohesion

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cohesion is the grammatical and lexical linking within a text or sentence that holds a text together and gives it meaning. It is related to the broader concept of coherence . There are two main types of cohesion: grammatical cohesion which is based on structural ...

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 ).

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cohesion \Co*he"sion\, n. [Cf. F. coh['e]sion. See Cohere .] The act or state of sticking together; close union. (Physics) That from of attraction by which the particles of a body are united throughout the mass, whether like or unlike; -- distinguished ...

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 ...

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.