COHESION
Dictionary entry overview: What does cohesion mean?
• COHESION (noun)
The noun COHESION has 3 senses:
1. the state of cohering or sticking together
2. (botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals)
3. (physics) the intermolecular force that holds together the molecules in a solid or liquid
Familiarity information: COHESION used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• COHESION (noun)
Meaning:
The state of cohering or sticking together
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
coherence; coherency; cohesion; cohesiveness
Hypernyms ("cohesion" is a kind of...):
connectedness; connection; link (the state of being connected)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cohesion"):
consistency (logical coherence and accordance with the facts)
continuity (uninterrupted connection or union)
Meaning:
(botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("cohesion" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
Meaning:
(physics) the intermolecular force that holds together the molecules in a solid or liquid
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("cohesion" is a kind of...):
force ((physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physical science; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
