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coherent

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, from Middle French cohérent (16c.), from Latin cohaerentem (nominative cohaerens ), present participle of cohaerere "cohere," from com- "together" (see co- ) + haerere "to stick" (see hesitation ).

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 unified; sticking together; making up a whole. 2 orderly, logical and consistent. 3 aesthetic ordered. 4 Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious: a coherent design. 5 (context physics English) Of waves having the same direction, wavelength ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts; "a coherent argument" [ant: incoherent ] capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner; "a lucid thinker"; "she was more coherent than she ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a clear/coherent strategy ▪ It is important that the company has a clear strategy. a coherent policy (= one in which all the parts of the policy work well together ) ▪ A long-term coherent policy for industry is ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
__NOTOC__ Coherent is a clone of the Unix operating system for IBM PC compatibles and other microcomputers , developed and sold by the now-defunct Mark Williams Company (MWC). Historically, the operating system was a proprietary product, but it became open ...

Usage examples of coherent.

The east window of this aisle is very fine in colouring, and fairly coherent in design.

The national interest is merely a more coherent and ameliorating expression of the popular interest.

The leaves below the archegonial group are frequently modified in size and shape, but the chief protection is afforded by a tubular perianth, which corresponds to a coherent whorl of leaves and grows up independently of fertilization.

Deep in its guts it creates coherent atom beams, from a bunch of Bose-Einstein condensates hovering on the edge of absolute zero: by superimposing interference patterns on them, it generates an atomic hologram, building a perfect replica of some original artifact, right down to the atomic level there are no clunky moving nanotechnology parts to break or overheat or mutate.

If you stare at one spot long enough, the random texture gets interpreted into some coherent image, or the suggestion of one, like an inkblot or those decalcomania and frottage pieces Max Ernst dabbled with.

Men had gone mad, in these first minutes following decarbonization, hopelessly, utterly madunable ever again to reorganize the ten-billion individual images that comprised a lifespan into any kind of coherent, selective order.

He pushed the engines and went into a series of extemporaneous maneuvers as salvos of coherent green light flashed around them.

Roused long enough to be coherent, one of the bunny-secretaries confided to Remo that Farger had come in uncharacteristically early, gotten a phone message and left.

Moreover, so far as esthetic theory was involved, if the psychic emanations of human creatures be grotesque distortions, what coherent representation could express or portray so gibbous and infamous a nebulosity as the specter of a malign, chaotic perversion, itself a morbid blasphemy against nature?

Grief can be disorienting--judgment, thinking, coherent action, concentration can vanish, and grievers can think they are going crazy.

Gramercy Place, they were unable to get a coherent story of why he had done the disgusting act, for he had lapsed into a stentorian tone of Biblical fervor, pontificating about the blood of the Iamb and the curse of Jezebel and the eternal fires of Perdition.

But Nelding rocked by too swiftly, too violently, for her to form a coherent first impression.

The Phobes and the Deems are genetically wired to abandon any given philosophical position the moment it encounters an honest and coherent refutation.

Even though Montrovant held him as easily as before, this transformation from coherent man to slavering beast set du Puy back a pace.

Then he learned to subtract some, overlap others, remap the image into a coherent one in three dimensions.