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cohæsion

cohæsion is the archaic spelling of cohesion.

Meaning of cohesion

Noun

cohesion (usually uncountable, plural cohesions)

  1. (usually) State of cohering, or of working together.
    • Unit cohesion is important in the military.
  2. (usually) Various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together.
  3. (usually) Growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant.
  4. (usually) Degree to which functionally related elements in a system belong together.
    • 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.2009, Robert C. Martin, chapter 10, in Clean Code, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 140
  5. (usually) Grammatical or lexical relationship between different parts of the same text.

Questions about cohæsion

What is cohæsion the archaic spelling of?
Cohæsion is the archaic spelling of cohesion.

Words near cohæsion in the dictionary

  1. cohæred
  2. cohærence
  3. cohærent
  4. cohæres
  5. cohæring
  6. cohæsion
  7. cohæsive
  8. COI
  9. Coia
  10. Coias
  11. Coiba

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cohæsion (page history and authors); cohesion (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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