Cohesive

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Characterized by, causing, or concerned in cohesion or the quality of adhering together, literally or figuratively: as, cohesive force.
  • Having the property of cohesion; capable of cohering or sticking; having a tendency to unite and to resist separation: as, a cohesive substance.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; ; producing cohesion.
  • adjective. Cohering, or sticking together, as in a mass; capable of cohering; tending to cohere.
  • adjective. See under Attraction.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Having cohesion.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. causing cohesion
  • adjective. cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated
  • Word Usage
    "You need the whole lot to create what he called a cohesive approach."
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    adhesive  united  
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    adhesive  
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