adhesive: Meaning and Definition of

ad•he•sive

1. coated with glue, paste, mastic, or other sticky substance: adhesive bandages.
2. sticking fast; sticky; clinging.
3. of or pertaining to the molecular force that exists in the area of contact between unlike bodies and that acts to unite them.

1. a substance that causes something to adhere, as glue or rubber cement.
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3. a postage stamp with a gummed back, as distinguished from one embossed or printed on an envelope or card.