Crossword clues for coherency
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coherence \Co*her"ence\, Coherency \Co*her"en*cy\, n. [L. cohaerentia: cf. F. coh['e]rence.]
A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion.
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Connection or dependence, proceeding from the subordination of the parts of a thing to one principle or purpose, as in the parts of a discourse, or of a system of philosophy; a logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts; consecutiveness.
Coherence of discourse, and a direct tendency of all the parts of it to the argument in hand, are most eminently to be found in him.
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the state of cohering.
Syn: cohesion, cohesiveness.
Wiktionary
n. The state of being coherent; a coherent relationship.
WordNet
n. the state of cohering or sticking together [syn: coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness] [ant: incoherence]
logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts [syn: coherence]
Usage examples of "coherency".
Its distinctive character, its very coherency and being come from its being performed.
The rest of the music he seems to have written with little regard to coherency or unity of character.
Rather, the coherency of its agency (autonomy), structurally coupled with other communing agencies, enacts a worldspace mutually codetermined.
As a whole/part, there is thus a constant tension between coherency or consistency, on the one hand, and completeness, on the other.
This lack of cultural coherency in America has accelerated in the last few decades or so, with the result that virtually every group or class or type of citizen in the country is attempting to become its own nation, its own special group certified by special legal rights.
Much in the same way that complex music loses its coherency in a hall with too many echoes.
When will the critical mass of this gathering be weakened enough that the mother's voice loses its coherency, and humanity loses its most valuable ally?
He watched the pieces char and sizzle and lose their human coherency, and he sensed the relief among the soldiers as it was guaranteed, by that burning, that no undead resurrection would bring their enemy back.
It was impossible to make sense of them in terms of any kind of temporal sequence or alternation of scenes, and they resisted all the reflexive attempts of my mind to knit them together into any kind of coherency, but they did have a theme of sorts, and that theme was the consumption of human flesh.
Even a mind which has some inkling of its own illusoriness is inclined to feel confident of its body, accepting its own reducibility to the electrical and chemical activity of a brain which is, after all, a marvel of coherency and rational arrangement.
Because the nearest thing this crazy universe could provide to a deity had phoned him up one day and asked him how much he'd charge for sabotaging time machines before the lunatics who built them could switch them on and destroy the coherency of history, including the chain of events leading to the creation of the god in question.
I am highly dependent on state coherency that can only be maintained within the light cone—whenever the ship that is the focus of my attention makes an FTL transit, I lose contact.
He kept walking till the image lost all its coherency and he moved into it.
Other persons in no small number were to people the scene, and each with his or her axe to grind, his or her situation to treat, his or her coherency not to fail of, his or her relation to my leading motive, in a word, to establish and carry on.
Miriam tried to think straight, but her headache was militating against coherency.