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the act or state of keeping together 黏合；结合；凝聚性 the cohesion of the nuclear family 核心家庭的内聚性 social/political/economic cohesion 社会／政治／经济凝聚性
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physics 物理 chemistry 化学 the force causing molecules of the same substance to stick together 内聚力；黏聚力
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Latin cohaes- ‘cleaved together’, from the verb cohaerere, from co- ‘together’ + haerere ‘to stick’, on the pattern of adhesion.