Cohesion

Quick meaning: Cohesion is a noun meaning State of cohering, or of working together.

Meaning

State of cohering, or of working together.

More Meanings

1. (physics, chemistry) Various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together.
2. (biology) Growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant.
3. (software engineering) Degree to which functionally related elements in a system belong together.
4. (linguistics) Grammatical or lexical relationship between different parts of the same text.

Example Sentences

Unit cohesion is important in the military.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• cohesions

Synonyms for cohesion

Depending on context, synonyms include coherence, cohesiveness, coherency.

Antonyms for cohesion

Common opposites include adhesion, incoherence, incoherency.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cohesiveness, coherency, coherence, coherent, cohesive, togetherness.

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