BONDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bonding mean? 

• BONDING (noun)
  The noun BONDING has 3 senses:

1. a close personal relationship that forms between people (as between husband and wife or parent and child)

2. (dentistry) a technique for repairing a tooth; resinous material is applied to the surface of the tooth where it adheres to the tooth's enamel

3. fastening firmly together

  Familiarity information: BONDING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BONDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A close personal relationship that forms between people (as between husband and wife or parent and child)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("bonding" is a kind of...):

personal relation; personal relationship (a relation between persons)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bonding"):

female bonding (the formation of a close personal relationship between women)

male bonding (the formation of a close personal relationship between men)

maternal-infant bonding (the attachment that forms between an infant and its mother beginning at birth)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(dentistry) a technique for repairing a tooth; resinous material is applied to the surface of the tooth where it adheres to the tooth's enamel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("bonding" is a kind of...):

technique (a practical method or art applied to some particular task)

Domain category:

dental medicine; dentistry; odontology (the branch of medicine dealing with the anatomy and development and diseases of the teeth)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Fastening firmly together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bonding; soldering

Hypernyms ("bonding" is a kind of...):

attachment; fastening (the act of fastening things together)

 Context examples 

A leaving group is an atom or a group of atoms that is displaced as a stable species taking with it its bonding electrons.

(Liposomal Oxaliplatin, NCI Thesaurus)

Iron Chelation involves non-covalent coordination bonding between iron and an organic chemical, often as part of an enzyme or protein complex, as in the iron-binding porphyrin group of hemoglobin.

(Iron Chelation, NCI Thesaurus)

Bonding substances available in the form of two components that are mixed together immediately before use, setting to a hard mass.

(Dental Cement, NCI Thesaurus)

A substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together (not in fixed proportions and not with chemical bonding).

(Mixture, NCI Thesaurus)

A chemical subunit that can undergo polymerization by bonding to other subunits.

(Monomer, NCI Thesaurus)

Oxytocin also is involved in maternal-newborn bonding, cognition and many other psychological and physiological processes.

(Oxytocin, NCI Thesaurus)

A 'leaving group' is an atom or a group of atoms that is displaced as a stable species taking with it the bonding electrons.

(Oxaliplatin, NCI Thesaurus)

Copper Chelation involves non-covalent coordination bonding between copper and an organic chemical, often as part of an enzyme.

(Copper Chelation, NCI Thesaurus)

Chelating Activity involves non-covalent, often coordinated, bonding between a metal and a biological molecule or complex where the biological molecule forms a ring around the metal.

(Chelating Activity, NCI Thesaurus)

A genetic variation in the receptor for oxytocin, a hormone involved in social bonding, affects the ability to remember faces in families with a child who has autism.

(Oxytocin affects facial recognition, NIH)