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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
coherent
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 needed.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
less
▪ The interests of the other classes find more or less coherent expression in movements of opposition and protest.
▪ Real skins are much less coherent than the stereotype.
▪ It recounts a complex story in a more or less coherent fashion.
▪ This makes the music less coherent, even enigmatic.
more
▪ Last year's war in Kosovo produced a more coherent performance.
▪ Detailing the study of specific groups provides a focus for research components and presents a more coherent view of research efforts.
▪ The Committee is currently reviewing its policy on research grants in order to produce a better defined and more coherent research programme.
▪ Robert Eccleshall has fewer pretensions than Ted Honderich but his book is much more coherent.
▪ The result will be a more coherent and comprehensive system by which to maintain standards in our awards.
▪ But this is a far more coherent assault.
▪ However, of the dreams that are reported some are more structured, have more coherent themes and plots, than others.
▪ At the same time, however, labour socialism was more coherent and critical than labourism.
■ NOUN
account
▪ Synthesis is the process of blending a number of pieces of evidence together into one coherent account.
approach
▪ Researchers have argued consistently that a coherent approach is needed to finding the type of intervention which works best for which children.
body
▪ In this way, other micro aspects such as cross-hatching and brushwork also come to form a coherent body of pattern.
explanation
▪ The theory of Darwin and Fisher is the only coherent explanation we possess for such characters.
▪ Much the most coherent explanation for the evolution of such phenomena is still Charles Darwin's.
▪ A coherent explanation of the cases must be placed on some other basis than agency.
▪ In order to provide coherent explanations for developments in family law general and abstract perspectives must be introduced.
▪ Hitherto the instrumental approach to law has been criticized as inadequate to provide a coherent explanation for contradictory tendencies in legal developments.
pattern
▪ But no coherent pattern has emerged.
▪ Economic like other social life does not conform to a simple and coherent pattern.
▪ Returns from other institutions proved difficult to fit in to a coherent pattern.
▪ Or, to put this all differently ... Pattern-notes arrange information spatially to create memorable and coherent patterns.
▪ It would be difficult to produce a coherent pattern by reversing these sentences.
▪ The editor has performed an excellent task in ensuring that the chapters follow a coherent pattern which makes it more readable.
policy
▪ Compared with shifting coalitions of Independent councillors, party groupings can make for coherent policy planning and administration.
▪ Few authorities were felt to have a coherent policy on supporting their older children.
▪ No coherent policy on radioactive waste disposal.
▪ Local authorities need comprehensive and coherent policies to meet both these demands and their minimum legal obligations.
▪ Dissemination of these objectives should provide the business with a coherent policy to which management effort can be directed properly.
▪ The other part is having coherent policies in the first place.
▪ Jupp Heynckes faces a tough job at a club desperately in need of coherent policies.
▪ The intention was to produce a coherent policy on the development of civil and military technology.
set
▪ The Levellers articulated this awareness, and channelled it into a coherent set of democratic political demands.
▪ Atomic theory, for example, is the coherent set of explanations of the structure and behavior of atoms.
strategy
▪ Political paralysis has prevented the evolution of either clear tactics or a coherent strategy.
▪ The district developed a coherent strategy to compete with its neighboring suburbs, focused on the use of technology in the classroom.
structure
▪ Each such coherent structure is identifiable for only a limited time.
▪ First, most legislatures do not provide a coherent structure within which power can be concentrated and exercised effectively.
▪ Figure 21.11 is a model of the other type of coherent structure.
▪ Suggested mechanisms for the origin of coherent structures include two important ideas.
▪ The very different patterns in the different orientations in each flow must reflect orientation of the coherent structures.
▪ It also, of course, indicates what the coherent structures are like.
▪ It is likely that these coherent structures originate through an intermittent instability of the velocity profile.
▪ Although the existence of coherent structures is well established, there is often controversy as to the most appropriate models.
system
▪ Each of these views is part of or generated a coherent system, but they are systems fed by imagination.
theory
▪ My main aims are to demonstrate a possible methodology for such analysis, and to present a coherent theory of deixis.
▪ It is not deconstructive in the sense that it attempts to explain those contradictions via a coherent theory.
▪ These two dimensions provided the basis for the first coherent theories about the connections between the peoples of the world.
▪ A coherent theory of jurisdiction is produced.
▪ Is he able to construct a coherent theory?
thought
▪ Her only coherent thought was that she should never have come back to stay in Wickrithe.
▪ Senses rioted, coherent thought fled, and for mindless seconds they were oblivious to the world about them.
▪ Then all coherent thought fled as fitzAlan's hand lowered further.
▪ But cognitive theories' rationalism is male-identified, drawing on dominant conceptions of the masculine nature of logical, coherent thought.
▪ Her mind devoid of any coherent thought, Hilary panicked.
▪ Every coherent thought fled abruptly as a tall figure appeared round the side of the building.
▪ It was her last coherent thought for some minutes.
▪ The childish words went through and through his mind, blotting out all coherent thought.
whole
▪ This was proposed by the engineer to give better three-dimensional bonding of the various elements of the cellar into a coherent whole.
▪ It is a succession or flow of events to make a coherent whole.
▪ Mr Reuter struggles on without his support to weld a group of large, still separate companies into a coherent whole.
▪ Your dream can come true if your plan has these three key elements, fitting together in one coherent whole.
▪ We must assume, of course, that these different aspects of his gnomic philosophy are to be unified into some coherent whole.
▪ Together they form a coherent whole, a new model of government.
▪ The main job is to begin fitting everything together into a single, coherent whole.
▪ Subjects do not exist in isolation, but rather come together to form a coherent whole for the children.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He couldn't give a coherent account of what he'd been doing that night.
▪ His book contains a coherent argument in favour of economic change.
▪ History could be defined as a coherent account of an event.
▪ I was so confused that I could not make a coherent answer.
▪ Rescuers found Campbell, who was conscious and coherent.
▪ She was hysterical and screaming - not coherent at all.
▪ We would like to see a coherent federal housing program.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A lot of albums play at telling a story, but few actually deliver a coherent sense of narrative.
▪ And how did they come to interrelate with one another so as to make possible a coherent, intelligible universe?
▪ But it is in developing a coherent conceptual framework for such discussion that the book is least successful.
▪ However, the actual policy process in a cabinet system depends on whether there is a coherent majority group in the legislature.
▪ Interest aggregation is the transformation of all these political needs and wants into a smaller number of coherent alternatives. 6.
▪ It can not be recalled in any coherent form.
▪ Sordid and diseased, perhaps, but there's already a compelling and coherent vision at work.
▪ The problem of establishing coherent, explicit and stable objectives for state enterprises applies with particular force to the railways.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coherent

Coherent \Co*her"ent\, a. [L. cohaerens, p. pr. See Cohere.]

  1. Sticking together; cleaving; as the parts of bodies; solid or fluid.
    --Arbuthnot.

  2. Composed of mutually dependent parts; making a logical whole; consistent; as, a coherent plan, argument, or discourse.

  3. Logically consistent; -- applied to persons; as, a coherent thinker.
    --Watts.

  4. Suitable or suited; adapted; accordant. [Obs.]

    Instruct my daughter how she shall persever, That time and place, with this deceit so lawful, May prove coherent.
    --Shak.

  5. (Physics, Optics) Of or pertaining to electromagnetic waves that have a constant phase relationship with each other; having identical phase at all points; as, the coherent light produced by a laser.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
coherent

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
coherent

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 and phase, as light in a laser. 6 (context botany English) Attaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature. 7 (context math of a sheaf English) Belonging to a specific class of sheaf having particularly manageable properties closely linked to the geometrical properties of the underlying space. alt. 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 and phase, as light in a laser. 6 (context botany English) Attaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature. 7 (context math of a sheaf English) Belonging to a specific class of sheaf having particularly manageable properties closely linked to the geometrical properties of the underlying space.

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WordNet
coherent

  1. adj. marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts; "a coherent argument" [ant: incoherent]

  2. capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner; "a lucid thinker"; "she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident" [syn: logical, lucid]

  3. sticking together; "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs" [syn: tenacious]

Wikipedia
Coherent (operating system)

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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 source in 2015, released under a 3-clause BSD License.

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.