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- Cohesion - n. - The act or state of sticking together; close union.
- Cohesion - n. - That from of attraction by which the particles of a body are united throughout the mass, whether like or unlike; -- distinguished from adhesion, which unites bodies by their adjacent surfaces.
- Cohesion - n. - Logical agreement and dependence; as, the cohesion of ideas.
- Slacken - v. t. - To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime.
- Cohesion - n. - Logical agreement and dependence; as, the cohesion of ideas.
- Fixedness - n. - The quality of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; solidity; cohesion of parts; as, the fixedness of gold.
- Hardness - n. - The cohesion of the particles on the surface of a body, determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be itself scratched;-measured among minerals on a scale of which diamond and talc form the extremes.
- Attraction - n. - An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.
- Solid - n. - A substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among its particles; a substance not fluid.
- Concrete - v. t. - To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles.
- Incoherency - n. - The quality or state of being incoherent; want of coherence; want of cohesion or adherence.
- Discontinue - v. i. - To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.
- Adnation - n. - The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.
- Slacken - a. - To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks.
- Consolidation - n. - To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation.
- Rot - v. i. - To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay.
- Adnate - a. - Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts.