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noun

Adhesion 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.

Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, adhesion to error, adhesion to a policy. "His adhesion to the Tories was bounded by his approbation of their foreign policy."

Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent. "To that treaty Spain and England gave in their adhesion."

(Physics) The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.

(Med.) The process of uniting surfaces by the formation of new fibrous bands resulting from an inflammatory process.

(Med.) One of the fibrous bands resulting from adhesion (5).

(Bot.) The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant.

Synonyms: Adherence; union. See Adherence.

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"Adhesion" Quotes from Famous Books

... intelligent people insisted upon it, that although they could not give in their adhesion to such mysteries, yet they greatly disapproved of the spirit of skepticism which had been so prevalent for the last fifty years. The new discoveries in science plainly showed that nature had many secrets yet unrevealed ...

— Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight - Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside • Emily Mayer Higgins

... the crafty Bonner and the subtle Peterson that while he was still loyal to the school board, and hence perforce opposed to Jim Irwin, and resentful to the decision of the county superintendent, his adhesion to the institutions of the Woodruff District as handed down by the fathers was not quite of the thick-and-thin type. For he had suggested that Jennie might have been sincere in rendering her decision, and that some people agreed with her: so Mrs. Bronson, while consorting with the censorious ...

— The Brown Mouse • Herbert Quick

... until centuries after this period—when political and, so to speak, accidental causes drove them into its arms—its spiritual power remained to them a thing apart, a foreign element to which they gave at most a reluctant half adhesion. ...

— The Story Of Ireland • Emily Lawless

... violate. As far, therefore, as regarded the personal share of the Khan in what was to come, Zebek was entirely at his ease: he knew him to be so deeply pledged by religious terrors to the prosecution of the conspiracy, that no honors within the Czarina's gift could have possibly shaken his adhesion: and then, as to threats from the same quarter, he knew him to be sealed against those fears by others of a gloomier character, and better adapted to his peculiar temperament. For Oubacha was a brave man, as respected all bodily enemies or the dangers of human warfare, but was ...

— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey

... Indeed, according to the theory, men are all shaped to one pattern, nothing being left to them but an elementary will; thus defined, the philosophic robot demands liberty, equality and popular sovereignty, the maintenance of the rights of man and adhesion to the "Contrat Social." That is enough: from now on the will of the people is known, and known beforehand; a consultation among citizens previous to action is not essential; there is no obligation to await their votes. In any events, a ratification by the people is sure; and should ...

— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 3 (of 6) - The French Revolution, Volume 2 (of 3) • Hippolyte A. Taine

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