Cohesive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cohesive \Co*he"sive\, a.
     1. Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as,
        cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive
        force.
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     2. Cohering, or sticking together, as in a mass; capable of
        cohering; tending to cohere; as, cohesive clay.
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     {Cohesive attraction}. See under {Attraction}. --
        {Co*he"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Co*he"sive*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cohesive
       adj 1: causing cohesion; "a cohesive agent"
       2: cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated; "a cohesive
          organization"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  45 Moby Thesaurus words for "cohesive":
     adhering, agglutinate, cartilaginous, chewy, cleaving, clinging,
     coherent, cohering, coriaceous, durable, fibrous, gristly, hard,
     hardy, holding together, impartible, indiscerptible, indissoluble,
     indissolvable, indivisible, infrangible, infusible, inseparable,
     insoluble, lasting, leatherlike, leathery, resistant, ropy, sinewy,
     sticking, stiff, stringy, strong, stubborn, stuck, tenacious,
     tough, tough as leather, undividable, unified, untiring, vigorous,
     viscid, wiry