adhesion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Persistent attachment or loyalty.

   [N]o waver in Judgment, have I, though Gods mercy, ever been; but a conſtant aſſertor of, and ſufferer for my ſatisfiedneſs in, and adheſion to, the piety and probity of my breeding and belief, vvhich vvas ever, yet is, and I hope, through Gods grace, to death ſhall be, in point of Religion according to the Doctrine and Diſcipline of the Church of England.

2. 2
   noun

   An agreement to adhere.

   Mistress Affery, heartily glad to effect the proposed compromise, gave in her willing adhesion to it.

3. 3
   noun

   The frictional grip on a surface, of wheels, shoes etc.

   Several types of diesel locomotive have been tested on this working and as a result the probable choice will be Type 2 diesels in pairs, without bankers. The crucial factor in the selection of this method is the higher degree of adhesion obtained than with a single Type 4; on trial one of the latter showed that in very adverse conditions it might slip to a standstill at one of the two tricky spots on the steep climb from Tyne Dock to Consett.

4. 4
   noun

   faithful support for a cause or political party or religion

5. 5
   noun

   the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition

6. 6
   noun

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

7. 7
   noun

   abnormal union of bodily tissues

8. 8
   noun

   The ability of a substance to stick to an unlike substance.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin haereō Latin adhaereō Proto-Indo-European *-tisder. Proto-Italic *-tjō Latin -tiō Latin adhaesiōlbor. French adhésionder. English adhesion From French adhésion, from Latin stem of adhaesio, from past participle of adhaerare.