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cohesive

adj
/kəʊˈhiː.sɪv/UK/koʊˈhi.sɪv/CA/kəʉˈhiː.sɪv/

Etymology

From Latin cohaesus, past participle of cohaereō, + -ive.

  1. derived from cohaesus

Definitions

  1. Having cohesion.

    • Our object is to unite all the manifestations of the New Era into one cohesive whole—New Thought, Christian Science, Theosophy, Vedanta, Bahaism, and the other sparks from the one New Light.
    • Maloney’s moment of magic ensured they did not. For Scotland, who produced the best of what cohesive football there was on the night, it was a merited outcome.

  2. A substance that provides cohesion

    • The thesaurus (Chapman, 1977) lists two pages of mechanical tools, two pages of joining functions, and a half page of adhesives, binders, and cohesives used to build or repair consumer goods.
    • Direct comparison meta-analysis showed that viscoadaptives lead to a lower loss in cell density compared with very low viscosity dispersives, and compared with super viscous cohesives.

  3. A device used to establish cohesion within a text

    • The fourth of this group of cohesives is the anaphoric, same UT.

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Derived

cohesive device

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cohesive. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at cohesive. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at cohesive

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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