Cohesive: Definition and part of speech

Cohesive

  1. a. Cohering, or sticking together, as in a mass; capable of cohering; tending to cohere; as, cohesive clay.
  2. a. Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force.

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.

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