cohesion

See also: cohésion and cohesión

English

Alternative forms

• cohæsion (archaic)

Etymology

Attested from the late 17th century, borrowed from French cohésion, from Latin cohaesiō, cohaesiōnem.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊˈhiː.ʒən/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /koʊˈhiː.ʒən/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /kəʉˈhiː.ʒən/, [kəʉˈhɪi.ʒən]
• Rhymes: -iːʒən

Noun

cohesion (usually uncountable, plural cohesions)

1. State of cohering, or of working together.

   Unit cohesion is important in the military.

   • 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:

     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.

2. (physics, chemistry) Various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together.
3. (biology) Growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant.
4. (software engineering) Degree to which functionally related elements in a system belong together.

   Coordinate term: coupling

   • 2009, Robert C. Martin, chapter 10, in Clean Code, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 140:

     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.

5. (linguistics) Grammatical or lexical relationship between different parts of the same text.

   Coordinate term: coherence

Antonyms

• adhesion

Derived terms

• cohesin
• cohesional
• cohesionless
• decohesion
• discohesion
• dyscohesion
• dyshesion
• incohesion
• noncohesion
• sister chromatid cohesion
• social cohesion

 

Related terms

• coherence

Translations

the state of cohering, or of sticking together

• Bulgarian: сцепление (bg) n (sceplenie)
• Catalan: cohesió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銜接 / 衔接 (zh) (xiánjiē), 凝聚力 (zh) (níngjùlì)

• Danish: sammenhold (interpersonal), sammenhæng (materials), samhørighed c
• Dutch: cohesie (nl) f, samenhang (nl) m
• Finnish: koheesio (fi), yhtenäisyys (fi), yhteistoiminta (fi)
• French: cohésion (fr) f
• German: Zusammenhalt (de) m
• Greek: συνοχή (el) f (synochí)
• Hungarian: kohézió (hu), összetartás (hu)
• Indonesian: kohesi (id)
• Japanese: 結合 (ja) (けつごう, ketsugō)
• Latin: cohaesiō f
• Malay: kejeleketan, kohesi
• Persian: انسجام (fa) (ensejâm)
• Polish: koherencja (pl) f, kohezja f, spójność (pl) f
• Portuguese: coesão (pt) f
• Russian: еди́нство (ru) n (jedínstvo), сплочённость (ru) f (spločónnostʹ), сцепле́ние (ru) n (sceplénije), связь (ru) f (svjazʹ)
• Spanish: cohesión (es) f
• Swahili: mshikamano (sw)
• Swedish: sammanhållning (sv)
• Turkish: bağlılık (tr)
• Ukrainian: згурто́ваність (uk) f (zhurtóvanistʹ)

the various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together

• Bulgarian: кохезия f (kohezija)
• Catalan: cohesió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 凝聚力 (zh) (níngjùlì)

• Danish: sammenhængskraft
• Finnish: koheesio (fi)
• French: cohésion (fr) f
• Hungarian: kohézió (hu)
• Japanese: 凝集力 (ぎょうしゅうりょく, gyōshūryoku)
• Korean: 응집력 (eungjimnyeok)
• Polish: kohezja f
• Portuguese: coesão (pt) f
• Russian: коге́зия (ru) f (kogézija), сцепле́ние (ru) n (sceplénije)
• Spanish: cohesión (es) f
• Swahili: mshikamano (sw)
• Turkish: kohezyon (tr), içyapışkanlık (tr)
• Ukrainian: коге́зія (uk) f (kohézija), зче́плення n (zčéplennja)

the growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant

• Finnish: yhteen kasvaminen
• Russian: сраста́ние (ru) n (srastánije)

the degree to which functionally related elements belong together

• Catalan: cohesió (ca) f
• Finnish: koheesio (fi)
• Hungarian: kohézió (hu)
• Japanese: 凝集度 (ぎょうしゅうど, gyōshūdo)
• Polish: spójność (pl) f
• Portuguese: coesão (pt) f
• Russian: свя́зность (ru) f (svjáznostʹ)

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• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} кохезија f, ^{(please verify)} јединство n

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} kohezija (sh) f, ^{(please verify)} jedinstvo (sh) n