cohesion — English Dictionary

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cohesion

Pronunciations (6)

Noun

State of cohering, or of working together.
Usage
- Uncountable
- usually
Examples

Unit cohesion is important in the military.

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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 no mean proportions, which tends to irritate and harass it and to confuse the situation.
Various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together.
Usage
- Uncountable
- usually
Growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant.
Usage
- Uncountable
- usually
Degree to which functionally related elements in a system belong together.
Usage
- Uncountable
- usually
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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 class are co-dependent and hang together as a logical whole.
Grammatical or lexical relationship between different parts of the same text.
Usage
- Uncountable
- usually

the state of cohering or sticking together

Synonyms
coherence coherency cohesiveness
Broader terms
connection link connectedness
(botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals)

Broader terms
growth growing maturation development ontogeny ontogenesis
(physics) the intermolecular force that holds together the molecules in a solid or liquid

Broader terms
force
(linguistics) the grammatical and lexical linking within a text or sentence that holds a text together and gives it meaning.

Broader terms
linguistic process

Examples

While lexical cohesion is obviously achieved by the selection of vocabulary, the other types of cohesion are considered as grammatical cohesion.

Word forms

cohesionscohæsion