COHESION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cohesion mean? 

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

1. the state of cohering or sticking together

2. (botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals)

3. (physics) the intermolecular force that holds together the molecules in a solid or liquid

  Familiarity information: COHESION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COHESION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of cohering or sticking together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

coherence; coherency; cohesion; cohesiveness

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

connectedness; connection; link (the state of being connected)

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

consistency (logical coherence and accordance with the facts)

continuity (uninterrupted connection or union)

Derivation:

cohere (come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

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

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

Domain category:

botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(physics) the intermolecular force that holds together the molecules in a solid or liquid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

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

force ((physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

 Context examples 

The linkage between duplicated sister DNAs is established during S phase and maintained throughout G2 phase (cohesion).

(Mitotic Sister Chromatid Cohesion, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in both limb and cartilage development and may play a role in chromatin cohesion.

(NIPBL Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A morphologic variant of lung sarcomatoid carcinoma characterized by the presence of mononuclear and multinucleated pleomorphic neoplastic giant cells that lack cohesion.

(Lung Giant Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The malignant cells lack cohesion and are arranged individually or in a linear manner (Indian files), or as narrow trabeculae within the stroma.

(Invasive Lobular Breast Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes vascular endothelial-cadherin protein, plays a role in calcium-dependent cell-cell adhesion, endothelial cell cohesion and endothelial survival.

(CDH5 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in DNA repair, cell cycle-dependent chromosomal cohesion and apoptosis.

(Double-Strand-Break Repair Protein Rad21 Homolog, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in cellular adhesion and endothelial cell cohesion.

(CDH5 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes sister chromatid cohesion protein PDS5 homolog B protein, plays a role in cellular proliferation and mediates the G0/G1 cell cycle arrest in response to androgen levels.

(PDS5B wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)