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  • noun Plural form of cohesion.

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Examples

  • We find that this 'mist' typology works as a design process because it better enables us to read and enact on the patterns, flows, continuities, cohesions and ruptures which better encompass the fluid nature of the systems that architecture, urban and landscape systems are made of.

    Carla Leitao: Cloud Architecture Carla Leitao 2011

  • We find that this 'mist' typology works as a design process because it better enables us to read and enact on the patterns, flows, continuities, cohesions and ruptures which better encompass the fluid nature of the systems that architecture, urban and landscape systems are made of.

    Carla Leitao: Cloud Architecture Carla Leitao 2011

  • In the final scenes when The Folksman are dashing backwards and forwards to the stage are we supposed to believe a film crew are following them into their dressing room or that we're privy to something they're not? the last thing it needs is a disembodied voice see People Like Us but perhaps next time they might consider a narration for cohesions sake.

    Feeling Listless - "Taking the credit for your second symphony." 2004

  • This worling probability function is the smallest unit or quanta of stenchauraic energy, and all energies within this spectrum are composed of cohesions of this basic building block.

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

  • This worling probability function is the smallest unit or quanta of stenchauraic energy, and all energies within this spectrum are composed of cohesions of this basic building block.

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

  • This worling probability function is the smallest unit or quanta of stenchauraic energy, and all energies within this spectrum are composed of cohesions of this basic building block.

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

  • Thus organs are said to be fused which were never separate, disjunctions and separations are assigned to parts that were never joined, adhesions and cohesions are spoken of in cases where, from the nature of things, neither adhesion nor cohesion could have existed.

    Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

  • Providence is in every swinging of the tides, in every circulation of the air, in all attractions and repulsions, in all cohesions and gravitations.

    Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror Trumbull White 1904

  • If Mrs. Ransom is so fortunate as to first observe one of these cohesions, she promptly steps to the door, and, covertly waiting until Mrs. Villiers's door opens, she shrilly observes, --

    They All Do It; or, Mr. Miggs of Danbury and his Neighbors Being a Faithful Record of What Befell the Miggses on Several Important Occasions ... 1877

  • But his successor Hume, and most empirical psychologists after him, have denied the soul, save as the name for verifiable cohesions in our inner life.

    Pragmatism William James 1876

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