cohesionn.
/kəʊˈhiːʒən/ 1. The action or condition of cohering; cleaving or sticking together; spec. the force with which the molecules of a body or substance cleave together; cf. attraction n. of cohesion.
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the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [noun] > cohesive
cohesion1678
the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > [noun] > cohesiveness > cohesion
nexe1626
accretion1656
cohesion1678
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [noun] > close, intimate, or permanent joining > cohesion
coagmentation1578
coherency1603
coherence1604
conglutination1607
agglutination1614
cementation1660
cohesion1678
1678 T. Hobbes Decameron Physiologicum viii. 85 The parts thereof may be contiguous, without any other cohesion but Touch.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. iv. 50 The Extension of Body, being nothing but the cohesion or continuity of solid, separable, moveable Parts.
1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. iv. iv. 409 Where the cohesion is weakest, it opens in rents.
1865 A. Geikie Scenery & Geol. Scotl. ii. 35 Water..loosens the cohesion of a steep bank.
1870 J. Tyndall Heat (ed. 4) i. 10 He wishes to tear the wood asunder, to overcome its mechanical cohesion by the teeth of his saw.
2. Botany. The superficial union of like organs. (Distinguished from adhesion n. 9.)
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the world > plants > part of plant > growth, movement, or curvature of parts > [noun] > cohesion or adhesion
adhesion1808
adherence1818
cohesion1835
symphysis1866
1835 J. S. Henslow Princ. Bot. (Lardner's Cabinet Cycl.) 93 In proportion as this cohesion extends from the base towards the apices of the sepals.
1848 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 4) II. 62 A cohesion of the cotyledons takes place.
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 546 (note) It has come to be the usage in English works on descriptive botany to apply the term ‘cohesion’ to the apparent union of organs of the same kind, ‘adhesion’ to the apparent union of organs of a different kind.
3. transferred and figurative. Of non-material union.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [noun] > close, intimate, or permanent joining > cohesion > specifically in non-material association
coherencec1580
coherency1603
cohesionc1690
c1690 J. Locke Thoughts on Conduct of Understanding §41 In their tender years, ideas that have no natural cohesion, come to be united in their heads.
1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 85 It long held together with a degree of cohesion, firmness, and fidelity not known before or since in any political combination of that extent.
1870 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. ii. ii. 180 There is considerable cohesion between the visual sensations produced by an orange and the taste or smell of the orange.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) I. ii. 28 The tie of nationality [was] a sufficient bond of cohesion.
Compounds
attributive, as in cohesion figures: the forms assumed by a drop of any liquid when placed on a solid or another liquid.
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