cohesion
nounUK /kəʊˈhiː.ʒən/ · CA, US /koʊˈhi.ʒən/
Etymology Attested from the late 17th century, borrowed from French cohésion, from Latin cohaesiō, cohaesiōnem.
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Usually State of cohering, or of working together.
- Unit cohesion is important in the military.
- For divers reasons, the capitalist class lacks this cohesion or solidarity, chief among which is the optimism bred of past success. And, again, the capitalist class is divided; it has within itself a class struggle of no mean proportions, which tends to irritate and harass it and to confuse the situation.1905 April, Jack London, “(please specify the page)”, in War of the Classes, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
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Biology, Natural sciences Usually Growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences, Software Usually Degree to which functionally related elements in a system belong together.
- In general, it is neither advisable nor possible to create such maximally cohesive classes; on the other hand, we would like cohesion to be high. When cohesion is high, it means that the methods and variables of the class are co-dependent and hang together as a logical whole.2009, Robert C. Martin, chapter 10, in Clean Code, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 140:
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Usually Grammatical or lexical relationship between different parts of the same text.
- Antonyms
- adhesion
- Derived terms
- cohesin, cohesional, cohesionless, decohesion, discohesion, dyscohesion, dyshesion, incohesion, noncohesion, sister chromatid cohesion, social cohesion
- Related terms
- coherence