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3 definitions found 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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