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(1):

(n.) Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, adhesion to error, to a policy.

(2):

(n.) 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.

(3):

(n.) Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent.

(4):

(n.) The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.

(5):

(n.) Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.

(6):

(n.) The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant.