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ADHESION (from Lat. adhaerere, to adh...

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 192 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ADHESION (from See also:Lat. adhaerere, to adhere)  , the See also:process of adhering or clinging to anything . In a figurative sense, See also:adhesion (like "adherent ") is used of any See also:attachment to a party or See also:movement; but the word is also employed technically in See also:psychology, See also:pathology and See also:botany . In psychology See also:Bain and others use it of association of ideas and See also:action; in pathology an adhesion is an abnormal See also:union of surfaces; and in botany "adhesion" is used of dissimilar parts, e.g. in floral whorls; in opposition to "cohesion," which applies to similar parts, e.g. of the same whorl .

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