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coherent

[koh-heer-uhnt, -her-]

adjective

  1. logically connected; consistent.

    a coherent argument.

  2. having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious.

    a coherent design.

  3. cohering; sticking together.

    a coherent mass of sticky candies.

  4. Physics, Optics.of or relating to waves that maintain a fixed phase relationship, as in coherent light, or light in which the electromagnetic waves maintain a fixed and predictable phase relationship with each other over a period of time.



coherent

/ əʊˈɪəəԳ /

adjective

  1. capable of logical and consistent speech, thought, etc

  2. logical; consistent and orderly

  3. cohering or sticking together

  4. physics (of two or more waves) having the same phase or a fixed phase difference

    coherent light

  5. (of a system of units) consisting only of units the quotient or product of any two of which yield the unit of the resultant quantity

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • coherently adverb
  • noncoherent adjective
  • ˈԳٱ adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of coherent1

First recorded in 1570–80; from Medieval Latin dzŧԳ-, variant of Latin cohaerent- (stem of dz󲹱ŧԲ ), present participle of dz󲹱ŧ; cohere, -ent
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And when it came to voting, they made a coherent connection between what they thought about the issues and how they voted.

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“I love him dearly. There’s no doubt about it. He’s coherent. He is much calmer than he has been in a long, long time because there is no garbage in his system.”

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“But if you replace that process with AI, even if you write higher quality stuff with less typos and more coherent sentences, it replaces the learning process so that the learning quality is lower.”

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Trump’s appearances have been deeply concerning as he cannot follow a coherent thread, frequently falls asleep, repeatedly veers into nonsense, and says he doesn’t know about the operations of his government.

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“I have to say that this is a coherent and not uncommon point of view,” Cowen wrote in an email.

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