bonding

n 1: a close personal relationship that forms between people (as

between husband and wife or parent and child)

2: (dentistry) a technique for repairing a tooth; resinous

material is applied to the surface of the tooth where it

adheres to the tooth's enamel

3: fastening firmly together [syn: {soldering}]

Ondine

["Concurrency Introduction to an Object-Oriented Language

System Ondine", T. Ogihara et al, 3rd Natl Conf Record A-5-1,

Japan Soc for Soft Sci Tech, Japan 1986].