Cohesion vs Cohesive - What's the difference?
cohesion | cohesive |
State of cohering, or of working together.
(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.
Having cohesion.
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, date=November 14
, author=Stephen Halliday
, title=Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero
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Cohesive is a related term of cohesion.
As a noun cohesion
is state of cohering, or of working together.As an adjective cohesive is
having cohesion.cohesion
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en-noun)- Unit cohesion is important in the military.
Antonyms
* adhesion * (computing) couplingReferences
*cohesive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Maloney’s moment of magic ensured they did not. For Scotland, who produced the best of what cohesive football there was on the night, it was a merited outcome.}}