Dictionary Entry
adhesion
adhesion is a 8-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as, the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 12 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as, the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like.
- 2noun
Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, adhesion to error, to a policy.
- 3noun
Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent.
- 4noun
The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.
- 5noun
Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.
- 6noun
The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant.
- 7noun
faithful support for a cause or political party or religion
"attachment to a formal agenda"
"adherence to a fat-free diet"
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- 8noun
the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition
"the mutual adhesiveness of cells"
"a heated hydraulic press was required for adhesion"
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- 9noun
a fibrous band of scar tissue that binds together normally separate anatomical structures
- 10noun
abnormal union of bodily tissues; most common in the abdomen
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