cohesion

cohésion

Lien qui maintient des parties ou des personnes ensemble pour former un tout qui fonctionne bien.

En anglais simple : The way parts or people stay together and form a whole that works well.

• The team needs greater cohesion.
• Shared goals strengthened cohesion among the workers.
• The essay lacked cohesion, so its ideas were hard to follow.

Synonymes : unity, togetherness, coherence

Contraires : disunity, fragmentation

Expressions courantes : team cohesion, social cohesion, group cohesion, lack of cohesion

cohésion

Forces qui maintiennent ensemble les petites particules d’une même substance dans un solide ou un liquide.

En anglais simple : Forces that make tiny particles of the same substance stick together in a solid or liquid.

• Cohesion holds water molecules together.
• The experiment measured cohesion within the liquid.
• Water droplets keep their shape partly because of cohesion.

Expressions courantes : molecular cohesion, cohesion forces, cohesion between molecules