cohesion
English
Alternative forms
- cohæsion (archaic)
Etymology
Attested from the late 17th century, borrowed from French cohésion, from Latin cohaesiō, cohaesiōnem.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /koʊˈhiʒən/
- Rhymes: -iːʒən
Noun
cohesion (usually uncountable, plural cohesions)
- State of cohering, or of working together.
- Unit cohesion is important in the military.
- (physics, chemistry) Various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together.
- (biology) Growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant.
- (computing) Degree to which functionally related elements in a computing system belong together.
- (linguistics) Grammatical or lexical relationship between different parts of the same text.
Related terms
Translations
the state of cohering, or of sticking together
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the various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together
the growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant
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References
- “cohesion” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
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