adhesion

adhesion has 10 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, adhesion to error, to a policy.
• n.. Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent.
• n.. The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.
• n.. Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.
• n.. The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant.
• n.. faithful support for a cause or political party or religion; "attachment to a formal agenda"; "adherence to a fat-free diet"; "the adhesion of Seville was decisive"
• n.. 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"
• n.. a fibrous band of scar tissue that binds together normally separate anatomical structures
• n.. abnormal union of bodily tissues; most common in the abdomen