(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | (physics) the intermolecular force that holds together the molecules in a solid or liquid |
(electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state | (botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals) |
| (linguistics) the grammatical and lexical linking within a text or sentence that holds a text together and gives it meaning. |
| the state of cohering or sticking together |