Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Characterized by, causing, or concerned in cohesion or the quality of adhering together, literally or figuratively: as, cohesive force.
  • Having the property of cohesion; capable of cohering or sticking; having a tendency to unite and to resist separation: as, a cohesive substance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; ; producing cohesion.
  • adjective Cohering, or sticking together, as in a mass; capable of cohering; tending to cohere.
  • adjective See under Attraction.

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  • adjective Having cohesion.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective causing cohesion
  • adjective cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated

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Examples

  • You need the whole lot to create what he called a cohesive approach.

    CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2009 2009

  • This debate about a device to “save” newspapers is fundamentally flawed because it assumes that the newspaper industry will remain cohesive with a single revenue and distribution model, as it did until about 5 years ago.

    Why the Kindle HD Can’t Save Newspapers 2009

  • Schmidt cites solitude as one of the defining characteristics of the developing spiritual movement in the 1800s, and later explores the evolution of a universal spiritual consciousness that became a staple of the movement (if it may be referred to as a cohesive movement at all).

    Kate Fridkis: What in the World Is Spirituality? 2010

  • The research team identified three distinct family profiles-one happy, termed cohesive, and two unhappy, termed disengaged and enmeshed.

    The Hindu - Home 2010

  • About numerical methods used for STLs, there are XFEM where cracks can be located arbitrarily on the mesh, or interface elements (also called cohesive zone elements) where cracks are along the interboundaries of the elements (hence it limits the application of the method).

    iMechanica - Comments vinh phu nguyen 2009

  • An unstructured document is defined as a cohesive body of text that is electronically accessible, e.g. patent document, news article, legal case, medical journal article

    Philip Brooks' Patent Infringement Updates 2008

  • Unfortunately, this means they are trying to unify what I would call a cohesive assault on real science.

    The Atheist Experience 2008

  • Granted, I'm writing about this point as if the story was dealing with any kind of cohesive plot to begin with.

    Rabid Rewind: Land of the Lost 2010

  • Nina calls the show "cohesive," but chides Mondo for going too far into teenager territory.

    Una LaMarche: Project Runway Finale Part Two Recap Una LaMarche 2010

  • Nina calls the show "cohesive," but chides Mondo for going too far into teenager territory.

    Una LaMarche: Project Runway Finale Part Two Recap Una LaMarche 2010

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