cohesive

1. 1

   Having cohesion.

   • a team welded into a cohesive unit

ant. incoherent · incohesive · loose · noncoherent · noncohesive · separate · unconnected

1. 1

   A substance that provides cohesion

   • The thesaurus (Chapman, 1977) lists two pages of mechanical tools, two pages of joining functions, and a half page of adhesives, binders, and cohesives used to build or repair consumer goods.
   • Direct comparison meta-analysis showed that viscoadaptives lead to a lower loss in cell density compared with very low viscosity dispersives, and compared with super viscous cohesives.
2. 2

   A device used to establish cohesion within a text

   • The fourth of this group of cohesives is the anaphoric, same UT.