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coherence

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Quality of cohering; of being coherent; internal consistency. 2 a logical arrangement of parts 3 (context physics of waves English) the property of having the same wavelength and phase. 4 (context linguistics English) semantic relationship between ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In physics , two wave sources are perfectly coherent if they have a constant phase difference and the same frequency. It is an ideal property of waves that enables stationary (i.e. temporally and spatially constant) interference . It contains several distinct ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in 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. Connection or dependence, proceeding from the subordination of the parts of a thing ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of cohering or sticking together [syn: coherency , cohesion , cohesiveness ] [ant: incoherence ] logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts [syn: coherency ]

Usage examples of coherence.

Coherence was achieved because the men who created the system all used the same, ever-growing body of textbooks, and they were all familiar with similar routines of lectures, debates and academic exercises and shared a belief that Christianity was capable of a systematic and authoritative presentation.

Indeed, one of the consequences of this change, by which an etymological, dynastic notion of linguistic filiation was pushed aside by the view of language as a domain all of its own held together with jagged internal structures and coherences, is the dramatic subsidence of interest in the problem of the origins of language.

In the fifteenth century, numerous authors demonstrated the coherence and revolutionary originality of this new immanent ontological knowledge.

None the less we will take it that the coherence of extremes is produced by virtue of each possessing all the intermediates.

I reached out with senses long unused, wondering if the force that had once dwelt here retained enough coherence to respond.

The annals of theology, both dogmatic and homiletic, from the time of the earliest Fathers till now, abound in detailed accounts of the future punishment of the wicked, whereof the context, the train of thought, and all the intrinsic characteristics of style and coherence, do not leave a shadow of doubt that they were written as faithful, though inadequate, accounts of facts.

The presence outside the restaurant was stranger and more frightening than Tristesse or Lamia, for all its seeming coherence and lack of aggression.

When the stylus fired a coherent beam of mesons at the border, the razor wire of disrupted graphs sliced fragments of their own surreal dimensions from the knot of virtual quarks and gluons making up each meson, and it was possible to exploit coherence effects to make some of these fragments act in unison to modify the border itself.

Borges assigns to that distortion of classification that prevents us from applying it, to that picture that lacks all spatial coherence, is a precise region whose name alone constitutes for the West a vast reservoir of Utopias.

The neopagan religious movement, with all its Wiccan and quasi-Wiccan subsets, finally realized that what it lacked was a certain coherence of doctrine.

The spread of infectious diseases, the intense coherence of a laser beam, the roiling motion of a turbulent fluid: All of these are governed by nonlinear equations.

Russian prisoner is nonregulation procedure, but Auschwitz regulations have no consistency or coherence.

But: given soul, all these material things become its collaborators towards the coherence of the kosmos and of every living being, all the qualities of all the separate objects converging to the purposes of the universe: failing soul in the things of the universe, they could not even exist, much less play their ordered parts.

The sudden grim coherence of his last two sayings terrified Bianca more than all his feverish, utterances.

The plant had no roots but had supportive structures like holdfasts, which maintained the shape of the whole organism and the coherence of the skeleton too.