Adhesion

Ad·he·sion

Adhesion

n.
  1. The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as, the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like.
  2. Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, adhesion to error, adhesion to a policy.
    His adhesion to the Tories was bounded by his approbation of their foreign policy.
  3. Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent.
    To that treaty Spain and England gave in their adhesion.
  4. The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion. (Physics)
  5. The process of uniting surfaces by the formation of new fibrous bands resulting from an inflammatory process. (Med.)
  6. One of the fibrous bands resulting from adhesion{5}. (Med.)
  7. The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant. (Bot.)