COHESION


Meaning of COHESION in English

[ kə(ʊ)'hi:ʒ(ə)n ]

■ noun the action or fact of forming a united whole.

↘ Physics the sticking together of particles of the same substance.

Origin

C17: from L. cohaes- , cohaerere (see cohere ).

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