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Meaning of adherence

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  adherence
      n 1: faithful support for a cause or political party or
           religion; "attachment to a formal agenda"; "adherence to a
           fat-free diet"; "the adhesion of Seville was decisive"
           [syn: {attachment}, {adherence}, {adhesion}]
      2: the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or
         the joining of surfaces of different composition; "the mutual
         adhesiveness of cells"; "a heated hydraulic press was
         required for adhesion" [syn: {adhesiveness}, {adhesion},
         {adherence}, {bond}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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