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Cohere vs Cohesion - What's the difference?

cohere | cohesion |

As a verb cohere

is to stick together physically, by adhesion or figuratively by common purpose.

As a noun cohesion is

cohesion (the state of cohering, or of sticking together).

cohere

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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

    * ----

    cohesion

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • State of cohering, or of working together.
  • Unit cohesion is important in the military.
  • (physics, chemistry) Various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together.
  • (biology) Growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant.
  • (computing) Degree to which different modules in a computing system are functionally dependent on others.
  • (linguistics) Grammatical or lexical relationship between different parts of the same text.
  • Antonyms

    * adhesion * (computing) coupling

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