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which unites bodies by their adjacent surfaces. Solids and fluids differ in the degree of cohesion, which, being increased, turns a fluid into a solid. Arbuthnot.

Want of cohesion.

The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.

Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts. An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.

The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.

between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.

Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting.

A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion.

Capable of cohesion.

Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force.

To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles. There are in our inferior world divers bodies that are concreted out of others. Sir M. Hale.

To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation.

e state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers. Grew. The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects. Dryden. Law of continuity (Math. & Physics), the principle that nothing passes from one state to a…

To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off. Bacon.

Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. "Discontinuity of surface." Boyle.

The quality of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; solidity; cohesion of parts; as, the fixedness of gold.

A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase. This heart Shall break into a hundered thousand flaws. Shak.

The cohesion of the particles on the surface of a body, determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be itself scratched;-measured among minerals on a scale of which diamond and talc form the extremes.

The quality or state of being incoherent; want of coherence; want of cohesion or adherence. Boyle.

Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of material substances. Woodward.