Adhesion

1. n. The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant.
2. 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.
3. n. Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, adhesion to error, to a policy.
4. n. Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent.
5. n. The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.
6. n. Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.