cohesive

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈkəʊ.hiː.sɪv/
• (America) IPA: /koʊˈhiː.sɪv/

Adjective

cohesive

1. Having cohesion.

Related terms

Translations

• German: zusammenhängend
• Portuguese: coeso
• Russian: свя́занный
• Spanish: cohesivo

Noun

cohesive (plural cohesives)

1. A substance that provides cohesion

   • The thesaurus (Chapman, 1977) lists two pages of mechanical tools, two pages of joining functions, and a half page of adhesives, binders, and cohesives used to build or repair consumer goods.

     Direct comparison meta-analysis showed that viscoadaptives lead to a lower loss in cell density compared with very low viscosity dispersives, and compared with super viscous cohesives.

2. (linguistics) A device used to establish cohesion within a text

   • The fourth of this group of cohesives is the anaphoric, same UT.

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