cohesion
State of cohering, or of working together.
Noun
- State of cohering, or of working together.
- Unit cohesion is important in the military.
- For divers reasons, the capitalist class lacks this cohesion or solidarity, chief among which is the optimism bred of past success. And, again, the capitalist class is divided; it has within itself a class struggle of...
- Various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together.
- Growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant.
- Degree to which functionally related elements in a system belong together.
- In general, it is neither advisable nor possible to create such maximally cohesive classes; on the other hand, we would like cohesion to be high. When cohesion is high, it means that the methods and variables of the...
Coordinate Terms: coupling
- Grammatical or lexical relationship between different parts of the same text.
Coordinate Terms: coherence
Origin
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.
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cohesin cohesional cohesionless decohesion discohesion dyscohesion dyshesion incohesion noncohesion sister chromatid cohesion social cohesion