Definition of cohesion

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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..

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Adnation :: Adnation (n.) The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.
Adhesion :: Adhesion (n.) The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.
Discontinue :: Discontinue (v. i.) To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.
Consolidation :: Consolidation (n.) To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation.
Incoherent :: Incoherent (a.) Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of material substances.
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..
Concrete :: Concrete (v. t.) To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles..
Cohesion :: Cohesion (n.) Logical agreement and dependence; as, the cohesion of ideas..
Coherency :: Coherency (n.) A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion.
Slacken :: Slacken (v. t.) To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime..
Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks..
Rot :: Rot (v. i.) To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay..
Cohesible :: Cohesible (a.) Capable of cohesion.
Solid :: Solid (n.) A substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among its particles; a substance not fluid.
Cohesive :: Cohesive (a.) Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force..
Cohesion :: Cohesion (n.) The act or state of sticking together; close union.
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..
Coalescent :: Coalescent (a.) Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting..
Noncohesion :: Noncohesion (n.) Want of cohesion.
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..
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