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cohesion

noun
/kəʊˈhiː.ʒən/UK/koʊˈhi.ʒən/CA/kəʉˈhiː.ʒən/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin haereō Latin cohaereō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin cohaesiōlbor. French cohésionbor. English cohesion Attested from the late 17th century, borrowed from French cohésion, from Latin cohaesiō, cohaesiōnem.

  1. derived from cohaesiō
  2. borrowed from cohésion

Definitions

  1. State of cohering, or of working together.

    • Unit cohesion is important in the military.

  2. Various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together.

  3. Growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Degree to which functionally related elements in a system belong together.

    2. Grammatical or lexical relationship between different parts of the same text.

The neighborhood

Derived

cohesin, cohesional, cohesionless, decohesion, discohesion, dyscohesion, dyshesion, incohesion, noncohesion, sister chromatid cohesion, social cohesion

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cohesion. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA