Cohesion
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Cohesion may refer to:
  • Cohesion (chemistry)
    Cohesion (chemistry)
    Cohesion or cohesive attraction or cohesive force is the action or property of like molecules sticking together, being mutually attractive...

    , the intermolecular attraction between like-molecules
  • Cohesion (computer science)
    Cohesion (computer science)
    In computer programming, cohesion is a measure of how strongly-related each piece of functionality expressed by the source code of a software module is...

    , a measure of how well the lines of source code within a module work together
  • Cohesion (geology)
    Cohesion (geology)
    Cohesion is the component of shear strength of a rock or soil that is independent of interparticle friction.In soils, true cohesion is caused by one of three things:# Electrostatic forces in stiff overconsolidated clays...

    , the part of shear strength that is independent of the normal effective stress in mass movements
  • Cohesion (linguistics)
    Cohesion (linguistics)
    Cohesion is the grammatical and lexical relationship within a text or sentence. Cohesion can be defined as the links that hold a text together and give it meaning. It is related to the broader concept of coherence...

    , the linguistic elements that make a discourse semantically coherent
  • Cohesion (band), a musical group from Manchester, England
  • Cohesion (album)
    Cohesion (album)
    Cohesion is the fourth studio album by Australian rock band Gyroscope, released through Island Records on 9 April 2010.The album's first single "Some of the Places I Know" was released on 1 February 2010, and the second single "Baby, I'm Gettin' Better" was released on 17 May. The third single,...

    , the fourth studio album by Australian band Gyroscope
  • Cohesion (social policy), the bonds or "glue" between members of a community or society and life

See also

  • Coherence (disambiguation)

  • Community cohesion
    Community cohesion
    Community cohesion refers to the aspect of togetherness and bonding exhibited by members of a community, the "glue" that holds a community together...

  • Social cohesion
    Social cohesion
    Social cohesion is a term used in social policy, sociology and political science to describe the bonds or "glue" that bring people together in society, particularly in the context of cultural diversity. Social cohesion is a multi-faceted notion covering many different kinds of social phenomena...

  • Structural cohesion
    Structural cohesion
    Structural cohesion is the sociological conception of cohesion in social groups. It is defined as the minimal number of actors in a social network that need to be removed to disconnect at least two actors in the remaining group. It is thus identical to the question of the node connectivity of a...

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