coherent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈhɪə.ɹənt/
ipa: /koʊˈhɛɹ.ənt/
ipa: /koʊˈhiɹ.ənt/
ipa: /koːˈhɪɹ.ənt/
ipa: /kəʉˈhɪə.ɹənt/
ipa: /kɐʉˈhiə.ɹənt/
ipa: /kɐʉˈhiːə.ɹənt/
Forms: form: more coherent
form: most coherent
form: cohærent
Etymology: From Middle French coherent, from Latin cohaērēns, from co- + haereō. By surface analysis, cohere + -ent.
Senses: examples: text: These people professed that the universe was one coherent thing; but they were not fond of the universe.
ref: 1909, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, chapter IV, in Orthodoxy:
text: A sentence like this one cannot be understood unless somehow we can store the underlined words for several seconds, while we wait for the rest of the sentence to arrive, with the information needed to complete a coherent thought.
ref: 1997, Bernard J. Baars, “Psychology in a World of Sentient, Self-Knowing Beings: A Modest Utopian Fantasy”, in Robert L. Solso, editor, Mind and Brain Sciences in the 21st Century, MIT Press, published 1999, →ISBN, page 7:
text: Anglia, is part of a wider phenomenon of the seventh century - the development of recognisable, coherent kingdoms from the fragmented tribal society which emerged from the ruins of Roman Britain.
ref: 2005, Tom Williamson, Sandlands: The Suffolk Coast and Heaths, Windgather, published 2005, →ISBN, page 15:
text: She intimidated me so much that I could hardly get out a coherent sentence in her presence.
ref: 2011, Claire Klein Datnow, Behind the Walled Garden of Apartheid: Growing Up White in Segregated South Africa, Media Mint Publishing, published 2011, →ISBN, page 124:
glosses: Unified; sticking together; making up a whole.
examples: text: At present she is unable to give any coherent account of the past, and the doctors hold out no hopes of the reestablishment of her reason.
ref: 1904 December, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Second Stain”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:
text: Perhaps Khrushchev did have a coherent plan in mind at the time he placed the nuclear missiles in Cuba.
ref: 2007, Kenneth R. Hammond, Beyond Rationality: The Search for Wisdom in a Troubled Time, Oxford University Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 108:
text: It will dissolve at death with the decay of the body, but it is a perfectly coherent belief that the faithful God will not allow it to be lost but will preserve it in the divine memory.
ref: 2009, John Polkinghorne, Nicholas Beale, Questions of Truth: Fifty-One Responses to Questions about God, Science, and Belief, Westminster John Knox Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 23:
text: Presenting a balanced and coherent argument is an important aspect of a nonempirical dissertation and you need to spend some time considering the most useful route through your argument.
ref: 2009, Carrie Winstanley, Writing a Dissertation For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., published 2009, →ISBN:
text: The underlying problem with transport policy is that there no coherent strategy. Ministers have tended to encourage greater use of motor vehicles through both transport and (particularly) planning policies, while simultaneously warning of the terrible consequences of unfettered growth of road use.
ref: 2020 December 2, Christian Wolmar, “Wales offers us a glimpse of an integrated transport policy”, in Rail, page 56:
antonyms: disjointed
glosses: Orderly, logical and consistent.
glosses: Aesthetically ordered.
glosses: Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious: a coherent design.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase, as light in a laser.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Attaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature.
topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: sheaf theory
glosses: Belonging to a specific class of sheaves having particularly manageable properties closely linked to the geometrical properties of the underlying space. See Coherent sheaf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
raw_tags: of a sheaf
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: In a technical sense, determined by the (topology of) the subsets. Formally, Such that 𝒯 is the finest topology on T for which the inclusion maps ιₐ:C_a→T are continuous, where each C_a is considered with its subspace topology.
raw_tags: of a topology 𝒯 on a set T with respect to a family C_a of subsets of T
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Finitely generated and such that all finitely generated submodules are finitely presented.
raw_tags: of a module
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Such that every finitely generated (left) ideal is finitely presented.
raw_tags: of a ring
Derived terms: anticoherent
autocoherent
coherentism
coherentist
coherentization
coherent light
coherently
decoherent
discoherent
noncoherent
quasicoherent
semicoherent
supercoherent
uncoherent
unicoherent
Related terms: adherent
coherence
cohere
cohesive
inherent