cohesibility
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[edit]Noun
[edit]cohesibility (uncountable)
- The state of being cohesible.
- 1826, John Mason Good, “Lecture IV. On the Properties of Matter, Essential and Peculiar.”, in The Book of Nature. […], volumes I (Series I. Nature of the Material World; […].), London: […] [A[ndrew] & R. Spottiswoode] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], →OCLC, page 81:
- Cohesibility is the tendency which one part of matter evinces to unite with another part of matter, so as to form out of different bodies one common mass.
References
[edit]- “cohesibility”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.