cohesion

See also cohésion, and cohesión

English

Alternative forms

• cohæsion (archaic)

Etymology

From French cohésion, from Latin cohaesionem.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːʒən

Noun

cohesion (usually uncountable; plural cohesions)

1. State of cohering, or of working together.

   Unit cohesion is important in the military.

2. (physics, chemistry) Various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together.
3. (biology) Growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant.
4. (computing) Degree to which different modules in a computing system are functionally dependent on others.
5. (linguistics) Grammatical or lexical relationship between different parts of the same text.

Antonyms

• adhesion
• (computing) coupling

Related terms

• coherence

Translations

the state of cohering, or of sticking together

• Bulgarian: сцепление (bg) n (sceplenie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銜接 (cmn), 衔接 (cmn) (xiánjiē), 凝聚力 (cmn) (níngjùlì)

• Danish: kohæsion, sammenhæng, sammenhold
• Finnish: koheesio, yhtenäisyys
• French: cohésion (fr)

• Japanese: 結合 (ja) (けつごう, ketsugō)
• Polish: spójność f
• Russian: единство (ru) (jedínstvo) n , сплочённость (ru) (spločónnostʹ) f , сцепление (ru) (sceplénije) n , связь (ru) (svjazʹ) f 
• Swahili: mshikamano (sw)
• Swedish: sammanhållning (sv)

the various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together

• Bulgarian: кохезия (bg) f (kohezija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 凝聚力 (cmn) (níngjùlì)

• Danish: kohæsionskraft, sammenhængsevne
• French: cohésion (fr)

• Japanese: 凝集力 (ja) (ぎょうしゅうりょく, gyōshūryoku)
• Polish: kohezja f
• Russian: когезия (ru) (kogézija) f , сцепление (ru) (sceplénije) n 
• Swahili: mshikamano (sw)

the growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant

• Russian: срастание (ru) (srastánije) n 

• Swahili: mshikamano (sw)

the degree to which different modules in a computing system are functionally dependent on others

• Japanese: 凝集度 (ja) (ぎょうしゅうど, gyōshūdo)
• Russian: связность (ru) (svjáznostʹ) f 

• Swahili: mshikamano (sw)

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• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кохезија f, јединство n

  Roman: kohezija f, jedinstvo n

References

• “cohesion” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).