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Adhesion

noun

Abnormal union of bodily tissues; most common in the abdomen.

A fibrous band of scar tissue that binds together normally separate anatomical structures.

The property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition. Synonyms: adherence, adhesiveness, bond. "A heated hydraulic press was required for adhesion"

Faithful support for a cause or political party or religion. Synonyms: adherence, attachment. "Adherence to a fat-free diet" , "The adhesion of Seville was decisive"

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"Adhesion" Quotes from Famous Books

... reasonable and moral agencies. For Browne, on the contrary, the light is full, design everywhere obvious, its conclusion easy to draw, all small and great things marked clearly with the signature of the "Word." The adhesion, the difficult adhesion, of men such as Pascal, is an immense contribution to religious controversy; the concession, again, of a man like Addison, of great significance there. But in the adhesion of ...

— Appreciations, with an Essay on Style • Walter Horatio Pater

... the fact that he thought it prudent to modify the expression of his unqualified acceptance of the Copernican theory favours the assumption that he may have had to endure some volume of hostile private criticism. Whatever may have been Zuniga's reasons for qualifying his early adhesion to the Copernican theory, it seems safe to think that timidity was not one of them. His nerve was unshaken. Towards the end of his life he was engaged on a task after Luis de Leon's own heart: the bringing to book of an ...

— Fray Luis de Leon - A Biographical Fragment • James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

... some blows, Sir William, but happily it did not turn out so. Knowing the importance you attached to the adhesion of the cause of Scotland of Robert the Bruce, I determined to fetch him hither to see you; and he is now waiting with my band for your coming, in a wood some ...

— In Freedom's Cause • G. A. Henty

... earth to announce the resurrection of the whole world from slavery; and demanded permission for them to attend the festival of the ensuing month, that each, on behalf of his country, might give in his adhesion to the principles of liberty as expounded by the Assembly. The president of the day replied with an oration thanking M. Clootz for the honor done to France by such an embassy; and Alexander Lameth ...

— The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France • Charles Duke Yonge

... upon it by the rough trackage typical of American railroads. At one moment an undue amount of weight would fall upon the truck because the drivers were over a depression in the roadbed. This condition overloaded the truck's springs and also resulted in a momentary loss of adhesion, causing the drivers to slip. Conversely, when the truck hit a depression too much weight was thrust upon the driving wheels, and broken springs or other damage ...

— Introduction of the Locomotive Safety Truck - Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology: Paper 24 • John H. White

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