cohesion

See also: cohésion and cohesión

English

Alternative forms

• cohæsion (archaic)

Etymology

Attested from the late 17th century, borrowed from French cohésion, from Latin cohaesiō, cohaesiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koʊˈhiʒən/
• 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 functionally related elements in a computing system belong together.
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)
• Catalan: cohesió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銜接／衔接 (zh) (xiánjiē), 衔接 (zh) (xiánjiē), 凝聚力 (zh) (níngjùlì)

• Danish: sammenhold (interpersonal), sammenhæng (materials)
• Dutch: cohesie (nl) f, samenhang (nl) m
• Finnish: koheesio (fi), yhtenäisyys (fi), yhteistoiminta (fi)
• French: cohésion (fr) f
• German: Zusammenhalt (de) m
• Greek: συνοχή (el) f (synochí)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Indonesian: kohesi (id)
• Japanese: 結合 (ja) (けつごう, ketsugō)
• Malay: kejeleketan, kohesi
• Polish: spójność (pl) f
• Portuguese: coesão (pt) f
• Russian: еди́нство (ru) n (jedínstvo), сплочённость (ru) f (spločónnostʹ), сцепле́ние (ru) n (sceplénije), связь (ru) f (svjazʹ)
• Spanish: cohesión (es) f
• Swahili: mshikamano (sw)
• Swedish: sammanhållning (sv)
• Turkish: bağlılık (tr)

the various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together

• Bulgarian: кохезия f (kohezija)
• Catalan: cohesió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 凝聚力 (zh) (níngjùlì)

• Danish: sammenhængskraft
• Finnish: koheesio (fi)
• French: cohésion (fr) f
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• Japanese: 凝集力 (ぎょうしゅうりょく, gyōshūryoku)
• Polish: kohezja f
• Portuguese: coesão (pt) f
• Russian: коге́зия (ru) f (kogézija), сцепле́ние (ru) n (sceplénije)
• Spanish: cohesión (es) f
• Swahili: mshikamano (sw)
• Turkish: kohezyon (tr), içyapışkanlık (tr)

the growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant

• Finnish: yhteen kasvaminen
• Russian: сраста́ние (ru) n (srastánije)
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the degree to which functionally related elements belong together

• Finnish: koheesio (fi)
• Japanese: 凝集度 (ぎょうしゅうど, gyōshūdo)
• Portuguese: coesão (pt) f
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• Russian: свя́зность (ru) f (svjáznostʹ)

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Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кохезија f, јединство n

  Roman: kohezija f, jedinstvo n

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References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “cohesion”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.