adhesion
noun/ədˈhiːʒn/
/ədˈhiːʒn/
[uncountable] (specialist)- the ability to stick or become attached to somethingWord Originlate 15th cent.: from French adhésion, from Latin adhaesio(n-), from the verb adhaerere, from ad- ‘to’ + haerere ‘to stick’.
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