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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Concrete :: Concrete (v. t.) To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles..
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..
Noncohesion :: Noncohesion (n.) Want of cohesion.
Adnation :: Adnation (n.) The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.
Incoherent :: Incoherent (a.) Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of material substances.
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..
Adhesion :: Adhesion (n.) The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.
Cohesive :: Cohesive (a.) Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force..
Continuity :: Continuity (n.) the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers..
Coalescent :: Coalescent (a.) Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting..
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..
Cohesion :: Cohesion (n.) The act or state of sticking together; close union.
Consolidation :: Consolidation (n.) To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation.
Discontinuity :: Discontinuity (n.) Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts.
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..
Cohesible :: Cohesible (a.) Capable of cohesion.
Coherency :: Coherency (n.) A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion.
Cohesion :: Cohesion (n.) Logical agreement and dependence; as, the cohesion of ideas..
Adnate :: Adnate (a.) Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts.
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..
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