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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cohesion \Co*he"sion\, n. [Cf. F. coh['e]sion. See {Cohere}.]
1. The act or state of sticking together; close union.
2. (Physics) 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.
Solids and fluids differ in the degree of cohesion,
which being increased, turns a fluid into a solid.
--Arbuthnot.
3. Logical agreement and dependence; as the cohesion of
ideas. --Locke.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
cohesion
n 1: the state of cohering [syn: {coherence}, {coherency}, {cohesiveness}]
[ant: {incoherence}]
2: the intermolecular force that holds together the molecules
in a solid or liquid
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
COHESION
{DEC}'s {CASE} environment.
[Details?].
(1995-01-04)
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