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cohesive

/kəʊˈhiː.sɪv/ adjective

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Latin root: cohaesus Wiktionary

adjective Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about cohesive at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. Having cohesion.
    a team welded into a cohesive unit

noun

  1. A substance that provides cohesion
  2. A device used to establish cohesion within a text

Origin

From Latin cohaesus, past participle of cohaereō, + -ive.

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