Definitions for adhesion

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adhesion ad·he·sion

Spelling: [ad-hee-zhuh n]

IPA: /ædˈhi ʒən/

Adhesion is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 390 anagrams from letters in adhesion (adehinos).

Definitions for adhesion

noun

1. the act or state of adhering; state of being adhered or united:
2. steady or devoted attachment, support, etc.; adherence.
3. assent; concurrence.
4. Physics. the molecular force of attraction in the area of contact between unlike bodies that acts to hold them together. Compare cohesion (def 2).
5. Pathology. the abnormal union of adjacent tissues. the tissue involved.
6. Botany. the union of normally separate parts.
7. Railroads. the frictional resistance of rails to the tendency of driving wheels to slip. factor of adhesion.

Origin of adhesion

1615-25; Medieval Latin adhēsiōn- for Latin adhaesiōn- (stem of adhaesiō) a clinging, equivalent to adhaes(us), past participle of adhaerēre to adhere + -iōn-

Examples for adhesion

And no doubt up to this point he gave his adhesion to the words of the preacher.

The protocol was converted into a treaty by the adhesion of Belgium on November 15.

It is the adhesion of woman to this view of the case which puzzles us a little at first.

Upon the establishment of the Empire he gave his adhesion to Napoleon.

The attendant judges, each in his place, now added their adhesion.

In other instances it is due to an adhesion of the pedicel to the side of the fruit.

The pleura and diaphragm also showed a good deal of disease and some adhesion.

With the adhesion of New York all serious anxiety came to an end.

The adhesion of Richelieu and the advocacy of Chapelain insured their triumph.

So to a man they gave in their adhesion in that quarter of the country.