Alignment vs Cohesion - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between alignment and cohesion

is that alignment is an arrangement of items in a line while cohesion is cohesion (the state of cohering, or of sticking together).

(en noun)

An arrangement of items in a line.

The process of adjusting a mechanism such that its parts are aligned; the condition of having its parts so adjusted.

An alliance of factions.

(astronomy) The conjunction of two celestial objects.

(transport) The precise route or course taken by a linear way (road, railway, footpath, etc.) between two points.

(gaming) In a roleplaying game, one of a set number of philosophical attitudes a character can take.

(bioinformatic) A way of arranging DNA, RNA or protein sequences in order to identify regions of similarity.

* stone alignment

* lamenting

* (archaic)

(en-noun)

State of cohering, or of working together.

Unit cohesion is important in the military.

(physics, chemistry) Various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together.

(biology) Growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant.

(computing) Degree to which different modules in a computing system are functionally dependent on others.

(linguistics) Grammatical or lexical relationship between different parts of the same text.

* adhesion * (computing) coupling