connectedness, connection, link - the state of being connected; "the connection between church and state is inescapable"

consistency - logical coherence and accordance with the facts; "a rambling argument that lacked any consistency"

continuity - uninterrupted connection or union

botany, phytology - the branch of biology that studies plants

growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, development - (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"

natural philosophy, physical science, physics - the science of matter and energy and their interactions

force - (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "force equals mass times acceleration"