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Adjoin vs Cohere - What's the difference?

adjoin | cohere |

As verbs the difference between adjoin and cohere

is that adjoin is to be in contact or connection with while cohere is to stick together physically, by adhesion or figuratively by common purpose.

adjoin

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To be in contact or connection with.
  • The living room and dining room adjoin each other.
  • (transitive, mathematics, chiefly, algebra, and, number theory) To extend an algebraic object (e.g. a field, a ring etc.) by adding to it (an element not belonging to it) and all finite power series of (the element).
  • \textbf{Q}\left(\sqrt{2}\right) can be obtained from \textbf{Q} by adjoining \sqrt{2} to \textbf{Q} .

    Derived terms

    * adjoining

    cohere

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Verb

  • To stick together physically, by adhesion or figuratively by common purpose.
  • Separate molecules will cohere because of electromagnetic force .
  • To be consistent as part of a group.
  • Members of the party would cohere in the message they were sending.

    Anagrams

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