cohesion : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cohesion	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for cohesion
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cohesion n the state of cohering or sticking together [syn: coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness] Antonym(s): incoherence, incoherency (botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals) (physics) the intermolecular force that holds together the molecules in a solid or liquid
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cohesion \Cohe"sion\, n. [Cf. F. coh[82]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 The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
COHESION {DEC}'s {CASE} environment. [Details?]. (1995-01-04)