adhesion /ad- or əd-hēˈzhən/

1. The act of adhering or sticking
2. Strong, firm contact
3. Steady attachment
4. The intermolecular force which holds matter together, particularly closely contiguous surfaces (physics)
5. Growing together of unlike parts (botany)
6. Reunion of separated surfaces (surgery)
7. Abnormal union of parts that have been inflamed (pathology)
8. (often in pl) a band of fibrous tissue joining such parts

adhēˈsive /-siv or -ziv/ adjective

1. Sticky
2. Likely or tending to adhere

A substance such as glue used for sticking things together

adhēˈsively adverb

adhēˈsiveness noun

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• expeditious
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