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noun

Adhesion n.

The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as, the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like.

Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, adhesion to error, adhesion to a policy. "His adhesion to the Tories was bounded by his approbation of their foreign policy."

Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent. "To that treaty Spain and England gave in their adhesion."

(Physics) The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.

(Med.) The process of uniting surfaces by the formation of new fibrous bands resulting from an inflammatory process.

(Med.) One of the fibrous bands resulting from adhesion (5).

(Bot.) The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant.

Synonyms: Adherence; union. See Adherence.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Adhesion" Quotes from Famous Books

... than this. It believes that a soul has been clad in flesh; that tender parents have fed and nurtured it; that its mysterious compages or frame-work has survived its myriad exposures and reached the stature of maturity; that the Man, now self-determining, has given in his adhesion to the traditions and habits of the race in favor of artificial clothing; that he will, having all the world to choose from, select the very locality where this audacious generalization has been acted upon. It builds a garment cut to the pattern of an ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... President should write to Congress to notify to them the part they take in the melancholy event. A kind of enthusiasm has spread also through the different parts of the capital—different societies and bodies have shown their adhesion to the sentiments of the National Assembly in ...

— The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 • J. F. Loubat

... mass of the iron in the armature is distributed so that the greater portion is at one end, B, much nearer the pole than the other end. Hence this portion is attracted first, the armature assumes an inclined position, maintained by a brass button, t, which prevents any adhesion between the armature and the core of the electromagnet. The electric connection between the carbon and the coil of the electromagnet is maintained by the flexible ...

— Scientific American Supplement No. 360, November 25, 1882 • Various

... upon the legislature was through bribery, not through partizan adhesion. Tweed himself confessed that he gave one man in Albany $600,000 for buying votes to pass his charter; and Samuel J. Tilden estimated the total cost for this purpose at over one million dollars. Tweed said he bought five Republican senators for $40,000 apiece. The vote on the charter was 30 ...

— The Boss and the Machine • Samuel P. Orth

... correspondence medium of all the senses and sensibilities. First of all, the child knows the mother only through touch—perfect and immediate contact. And yet, from the moment of conception, the egg-cell repudiated complete adhesion and even communication, and asserted its individual integrity. The child in the womb, perfect a contact though it may have with the mother, is all the time also dynamically polarized against this contact. ...

— Fantasia of the Unconscious • D. H. Lawrence

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