Coherent

/kəʊˈhɪə.ɹənt/ · adjective

Meaning

Unified; sticking together; making up a whole..

Definitions by Sense

1. Unified; sticking together; making up a whole.
2. Orderly, logical and consistent.
3. Aesthetically ordered.
4. Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious: a coherent design.
5. (physics) Of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase, as light in a laser.
6. (botany) Attaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature.
7. (mathematics, sheaf theory, of a sheaf) 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
8. (topology, of a topology 𝒯 on a set T with respect to a family C_a of subsets of T) 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.

Example Sentences

These people professed that the universe was one coherent thing; but they were not fond of the universe.

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.

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.

She intimidated me so much that I could hardly get out a coherent sentence in her presence.

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.

Perhaps Khrushchev did have a coherent plan in mind at the time he placed the nuclear missiles in Cuba.

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.

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.

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Word Forms

• more coherent
• most coherent
• cohærent

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