What does "adhesion" mean?
Adhesion: Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, to error, to a policy. His adhesion to the Tories was bounded by his approbation of their foreign policy. De Quincey.
Additional senses
- 2.Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent. To that treaty Spain and England gave in their adhesion. Macaulay.
- 3.(Physics) The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.
- 4.(Med.) Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.
- 5.(Bot.) The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant. See Adherence.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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