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coherent
- /kəʊˈhɪə.ɹənt/ UK
- /koʊˈhɛɹ.ənt/ US
- /koʊˈhiɹ.ənt/ US
- /koːˈhɪɹ.ənt/ Canada
- /kəʉˈhɪə.ɹənt/ Australia
- /kɐʉˈhiə.ɹənt/ New Zealand
- /kɐʉˈhiːə.ɹənt/ New Zealand
Where it comes from
From Middle French coherent, from Latin cohaērēns, from co- + haereō. By surface analysis, cohere + -ent.
adjective more coherent · most coherent · cohærent
- Unified; sticking together; making up a whole. 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.
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Orderly, logical and consistent.
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.
Opposite: disjointed
- Aesthetically ordered.
- Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious: a coherent design.
- Of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase, as light in a laser.
- Attaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature.
- 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
- 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.
- Finitely generated and such that all finitely generated submodules are finitely presented.
- Such that every finitely generated (left) ideal is finitely presented.
Opposite: incoherent
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: logical, rational, consistent, lucid, ordered, orderly, tenacious, adhesive, seamless, cohesiveness, integrated, cohesive, cohesion, unified, coherency, unifying
adjective
Opposite: incoherent
Translations
Every language
adj sticking together
| Español | coherente |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 凝聚的 níngjù de |
| Português | coerente |
| Deutsch | kohärent, zusammenhängend |
| Ελληνικά | συνεκτικός synektikós, συναφής synafís, συνδεδεμένος syndedeménos |
| Русский | свя́зный svjáznyj |
| עברית | עקבי ikví, עקיב akív, קוהרנטי koherénti |
adj orderly, logical and consistent
| Español | coherente |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 有條理的 /有条理的 yǒu tiáolǐ de, 連貫的 /连贯的 liánguàn de |
| Português | coerente |
| Français | cohérent |
| Deutsch | kohärent, schlüssig, widerspruchsfrei, folgerichtig |
| Italiano | coerente |
| Ελληνικά | συνεκτικός synektikós |
| Русский | свя́зный svjáznyj, после́довательный poslédovatelʹnyj |
| العربية | مُلْتَحِم multaḥim, مُتَرَابِط mutarābiṭ |
adj aesthetically ordered
| Deutsch | stimmig |
|---|
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title = {coherent},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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