cohesion

結束、まとまり

部分や人々が結び付き、うまく働く一つの全体になること。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： unity, togetherness, coherence

反対語： disunity, fragmentation

よく使う表現： team cohesion, social cohesion, group cohesion, lack of cohesion

凝集力

固体や液体の中で、同じ物質の小さな粒子を結び付ける力。

やさしい英語で： 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.

よく使う表現： molecular cohesion, cohesion forces, cohesion between molecules