Definition of Cohesion

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Cohesion

The act or state of sticking together; close union.

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.

Logical agreement and dependence; as, the cohesion of ideas.

Related Definitions:

Act, Adhesion, Adjacent, Agreement, And, Are, As, Attraction, Bodies, Body, By, Close, Cohesion, Dependence, Distinguished, From, Ideas, Like, Logical, Mass, Of, Or, State, Sticking, That, The, Their, Throughout, Together, Union, United, Unlike, Whether, Which

Cohesion Quotations

We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.
Douglas Bader

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
Georges Bataille

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming.
Sara Paretsky

This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.
Walter Rudolf Hess

Cohesion Translations

cohesion in German is Zusammenhalt

Quotes