Coherent

Quick meaning: Coherent is an adjective meaning Unified; sticking together; making up a whole.

Meaning

Unified; sticking together; making up a whole.

More Meanings

1. Orderly, logical and consistent.
2. Aesthetically ordered.
3. Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious: a coherent design.
4. (physics) Of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase, as light in a laser.
5. (botany) Attaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature.
6. (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
7. (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

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

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

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

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.

Synonyms for coherent

Depending on context, synonyms include tenacious, rational, orderly, ordered, consistent, logical.

Antonyms for coherent

Common opposites include disjointed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include logical, rational, consistent, lucid, ordered, orderly.

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