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Definition of Cohesive
1. Adjective. Causing cohesion. "A cohesive agent"
2. Adjective. Cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated. "A cohesive organization"
Definition of Cohesive
1. a. Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force.
Definition of Cohesive
1. Adjective. Having cohesion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cohesive
1. cohesion [adj] - See also: cohesion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cohesive
Literary usage of Cohesive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of oral surgery: Being a Treatise on the Diseases and Surgery of by James Edmund Garretson (1884)
"It is used precisely as cohesive foil, and works with a plasticity not much ...
A division of gold is into soft and cohesive ; the first has a kid-like ..."
2. Treatise on Heat by Dionysius Lardner (1833)
"So long as the energy of the cohesive principle exceeds the power of the repulsive
force produced by heat, the body will remain in a solid state; ..."
3. American Journal of Dental Science by American Society of Dental Surgeons (1881)
"All pure gold with clean surfaces is cohesive; any which is non-cohesive is such
because of slight alloying, or because of surface contamination. ..."
4. Dominion Dental Journal (1903)
"One of the reasons why more non-cohesive gold has not been used in the past, in
these fillings, is because of the difficulty operators have had in making ..."
5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1869)
"ON GALVANIC DEPOSITION OF IRON IN cohesive FILMS. ... deposits of almost any
thickness of metal in cohesive coats may not be obtained from solutions of iron ..."
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