Must mingle other atoms with those before they stabilize in our plane.
Yet it is plain that the effect of these dinners was to stabilize prices for steel.
Officials anticipate that the rural population will stabilize and that most future increases will be to the towns and cities.
Scrub on the remainder, however, serves to stabilize the soil of the forest lands against erosion and to slow the runoff of water.
He felt defeated in his attempts to stabilize his impressions.
Acquisitiveness is an essential trait of aristocracy, and adhesiveness of its perpetuity.
Directly above Inhabitiveness and adhesiveness, Continuity is located.
I mention this incident to give an idea of the adhesiveness of the glue used in the construction of Swifts' nests.
A little boiled rice flour improves its adhesiveness for indoor use.
Fipps was a man of cosmopolitan tastes, and he had not the phrenological organs of locality and adhesiveness largely developed.
1660s, from French adhésif, formed in French from Latin adhaes-, past participle stem of adhaere (see adherent).
1881, from adhesive (adj.). Originally of postage stamps (adhesive stamp is attested from 1840). Of substances that cause to adhere by 1900.
adhesive ad·he·sive (ād-hē'sĭv, -zĭv)
adj.
Tending to adhere; sticky.
Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of an adhesion.
