self-adhering

Updated: May 7, 2025

Its plating can't give way; it's self-adhering and not dependent on the tightness of its rivets; and due to the perfect union of its materials, the solidarity of its construction allows it to defy the most violent seas. "The two hulls are manufactured from boilerplate steel, whose relative density is 7.8 times that of water.

Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea