adhesion
The ability of a substance to stick to an unlike substance.
Other meanings
Persistent attachment or loyalty.
An agreement to adhere.
Antonyms
- cohesion
Related words
- adhesiolysis
- adhesiotomy
- adhesome
- bioadhesion
- coadhesion
- disadhesion
- hyperadhesion
- immunoadhesion
- microadhesion
- nonadhesion
- readhesion
- sialoadhesion
Word history
From French "adhésion".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “adhesion” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.