adhesion

Example Sentences

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His ability to balance on the edge of adhesion in the braking-entry phase at a higher speed than almost anyone else made him stand out.

From BBC • Aug. 27, 2025

He says: “You have a steel wheel on a steel rail and anything that causes low adhesion can be a big problem.”

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2024

The researchers' fruit fly model integrates the numerous signals that orchestrate cell movement, contraction, adhesion and proliferation.

From Science Daily • May 7, 2024

Compaction problems are therefore due to faulty contractility in these cells, and not a lack of adhesion between them, as was previously assumed.

From Science Daily • May 1, 2024

May substitute provisions of previous conventions Such accession shall imply full adhesion to all the clauses and admission to all the advantages provided by the present Convention.

From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Bowker, Richard Rogers