Discontinuity: alternatives and connections

The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.

Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts.

The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.

Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry.

An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate part…

To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journ…

Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting.

A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion.

Capable of cohesion.

(linguistics) the grammatical and lexical linking within a text or sentence that holds a text together and gives it meaning.; "While l…

Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force.

To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles.

To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation.

A solution of continuity; division; separation of parts.

The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; int…

Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.

To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.

The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body.