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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

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From Middle French coherent, from Latin cohaērēns, from co- + haereō. By surface analysis, cohere + -ent.

adjective more coherent · most coherent · cohærent

  1. 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.
  2. 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

  3. Aesthetically ordered.
  4. Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious: a coherent design.
  5. Of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase, as light in a laser.
  6. Attaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature.
  7. 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. 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.
  9. of a module Finitely generated and such that all finitely generated submodules are finitely presented.
  10. of a ring 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

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adj sticking together

Españolcoherente
中文凝聚的 níngjù de
Portuguêscoerente
Deutschkohärent, zusammenhängend
Ελληνικάσυνεκτικός synektikós, συναφής synafís, συνδεδεμένος syndedeménos
Русскийсвя́зный svjáznyj
עבריתעקבי ikví, עקיב akív, קוהרנטי koherénti

adj orderly, logical and consistent

Españolcoherente
中文有條理的 /有条理的 yǒu tiáolǐ de, 連貫的 /连贯的 liánguàn de
Portuguêscoerente
Françaiscohérent
Deutschkohärent, schlüssig, widerspruchsfrei, folgerichtig
Italianocoerente
Ελληνικάσυνεκτικός synektikós
Русскийсвя́зный svjáznyj, после́довательный poslédovatelʹnyj
العربيةمُلْتَحِم multaḥim, مُتَرَابِط mutarābiṭ

adj aesthetically ordered

Deutschstimmig

adj of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase

Españolcoherente
中文相干的 xiānggān de
Portuguêscoerente
Françaiscohérent
Deutschkohärent
Ελληνικάσύμφωνος sýmfonos
Русскийкогере́нтный kogeréntnyj

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@misc{coherent_2026,
  title = {coherent},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/coherent},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}