ADHESION
\ɐdhˈiːʒən], \ɐdhˈiːʒən], \ɐ_d_h_ˈiː_ʒ_ə_n]\
Definitions of ADHESION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition
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faithful support for a religion or cause or political party
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a fibrous band of scar tissue that binds together normally separate anatomical structures
By Princeton University
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the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition
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faithful support for a religion or cause or political party
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a fibrous band of scar tissue that binds together normally separate anatomical structures
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, adhesion to error, to a policy.
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Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent.
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The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.
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Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.
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The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, adhesion to error, to a policy.
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Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent.
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The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.
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Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.
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The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant.
By Noah Webster.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. The process of adhering or uniting of two surfaces or parts, especially the union of the opposing surfaces of a wound. 2. In dentistry, the mode in which an upper denture is held in place without vacuum-chambers. 3. In the plural, bands of more or less organized fibrinous exudate thrown out on the surface of a serous membrane and connecting the opposing surfaces.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The act or state of adhering; adherence; steady attachment; the tendency of two surfaces to remain attached when in contact.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Applied to matter-the act of sticking to; a union of parts of any body by means of cement, glue, growth, &c.; steady attachment.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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