adhesion

Definitions

1. 1.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.
2. 2.Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent. To that treaty Spain and England gave in their adhesion. Macaulay.
3. 3.(Physics) The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.
4. 4.(Med.) Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.
5. 5.(Bot.) The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant. See Adherence.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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Definition-first questions whose answer is adhesion.

• What is 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 called?
• What is agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent. To that treaty Spain and England gave in their adhesion. Macaulay called?
• What is the molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion called?
• What is union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process called?
• What is the union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant. See Adherence called?