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  • English Word Adhesion Definition Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent.
  • English Word Adhesion Definition The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.
  • English Word Adhesion Definition Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.
  • English Word Adhesion Definition The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant.
  • English Word Adhesive Definition Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.
  • English Word Adhesive Definition Apt or tending to adhere; clinging.
  • English Word Adhesively Definition In an adhesive manner.
  • English Word Adhesiveness Definition The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.
  • English Word Adhesiveness Definition Propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse.
  • English Word Adhibit Definition To admit, as a person or thing; to take in.
  • English Word Adhibit Definition To use or apply; to administer.
  • English Word Adhibit Definition To attach; to affix.
  • English Word Adhibition Definition The act of adhibiting; application; use.
  • English Word Adhort Definition To exhort; to advise.
  • English Word Adhortation Definition Advice; exhortation.
  • English Word Adhortatory Definition Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory.
  • English Word Adiabatic Definition Not giving out or receiving heat.
  • English Word Adiactinic Definition Not transmitting the actinic rays.
  • English Word Adiantum Definition A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.
  • English Word Adiaphorism Definition Religious indifference.
  • English Word Adiaphorist Definition One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical.
  • English Word Adiaphoristic Definition Pertaining to matters indifferent in faith and practice.
  • English Word Adiaphorite Definition Same as Adiaphorist.
  • English Word Adiaphorous Definition Indifferent or neutral.
  • English Word Adiaphorous Definition Incapable of doing either harm or good, as some medicines.
  • English Word Adiaphory Definition Indifference.
  • English Word Adiathermic Definition Not pervious to heat.
  • English Word Adieu Definition Good-by; farewell; an expression of kind wishes at parting.
  • English Word Adieu Definition A farewell; commendation to the care of God at parting.
  • English Word Adieus Definition of Adieu