About The Word Adhesion
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Adhesion
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What's The Definition Of Adhesion?
[n] faithful support for a religion or cause or political party
[n] the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition [n] a fibrous band of scar tissue that binds together normally separate anatomical structures [n] abnormal union of bodily tissues; most common in the abdomen Synonyms | Synonyms for Adhesion: adherence | adherence | adhesiveness | attachment | bond Related Terms | Find terms related to Adhesion: See Also | ecclesiasticism | pathology | scar tissue | stickiness | support | symphysis | synechia | traditionalism Adhesion In Webster's Dictionary \Ad*he"sion\, n. [L. adhaesio, fr. adhaerere: cf. F.
adh['e]sion.]
1. The action of sticking; the state of being attached;
intimate union; as, the adhesion of glue, or of parts
united by growth, cement, or the like.
2. Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as,
adhesion to error, to a policy.
His adhesion to the Tories was bounded by his
approbation of their foreign policy. --De Quincey.
3. Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent.
To that treaty Spain and England gave in their
adhesion. --Macaulay.
4. (Physics) The molecular attraction exerted between bodies
in contact. See {Cohesion}.
5. (Med.) Union of surface, normally separate, by the
formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory
process.
6. (Bot.) The union of parts which are separate in other
plants, or in younger states of the same plant.
Syn: Adherence; union. See {Adherence}.
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