Adhesion
[əd'hiːʒ(ə)n] or [əd'hiʒn]
Definition
(noun.) a fibrous band of scar tissue that binds together normally separate anatomical structures.
(noun.) abnormal union of bodily tissues; most common in the abdomen.
Checker: Peggy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, adhesion to error, to a policy.
(n.) Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent.
(n.) The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.
(n.) Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.
(n.) The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant.
Checker: Patty
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Adhering, sticking, clinging, tendency to adhere.[2]. Attachment, ADHERENCE.
Editor: Lyle
Definition
n. the act of adhering or sticking to: steady attachment: (path.) a vital union between two surfaces of a living body which have been either naturally or artificially separated.—adj. Adhes′ive sticky: apt to adhere.—adv. Adhes′ively.—n. Adhes′iveness.
Typist: Randall
Examples
- For these out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesionamalgamation. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This more effectually secured the adhesion of the wheels to the rails, and allowed the carrying of heavier loads. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Their method for making a shoe was to take a crude wooden last, which they covered with clay to prevent the adhesion of the gum. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In England, Blackett and George Stephenson discovered that the adhesion of smooth wheels to smooth rails was sufficient. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In this manner the adhesion of the cotton wool was safely secured, and there was no chance of the rollers slipping around without drawing it in. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Mistress Affery, heartily glad to effect the proposed compromise, gave in her willing adhesion to it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Checker: Walter