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Definitions for coherent
koʊˈhɪər ənt, -ˈhɛr-co·her·ent

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. coherent, consistent, logical, orderedadjective

    marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts

    "a coherent argument"

  2. coherent, logical, lucidadjective

    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"

  3. coherentadjective

    (physics) of waves having a constant phase relation

  4. coherent, tenaciousadjective

    sticking together

    "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs"

GCIDE

  1. Coherentadjective

    (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.

Wiktionary

  1. coherentadjective

    Sticking together

  2. coherentadjective

    Orderly, logical and consistent.

  3. coherentadjective

    Aesthetically ordered

  4. coherentadjective

    Of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase, as light in a laser.

  5. coherentadjective

    Attaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature.

  6. Etymology: From cohaerens, from co- + haereo.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Coherentadjective

    Etymology: cohærens, Latin.

    By coagulating and diluting, that is, making their parts more or less coherent. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.

    Where all must full, or not coherent be;
    And all that rises, rise in due degree. Alexander Pope, Essay on Man.

    Instruct my daughter,
    That time and place, with this deceit so lawful,
    May prove coherent. William Shakespeare, All’s well that ends well.

    A coherent thinker, and a strict reasoner, is not to be made at once by a set of rules. Isaac Watts, Logick.

ChatGPT

  1. coherent

    Coherent generally means logically connected, consistent, or having a natural agreement of the parts. It can refer to an argument, statement, or theory that is systematic and logically integrated. In physics, it can also refer to waves that have the same frequency, wavelength, and phase difference.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Coherentadjective

    sticking together; cleaving; as the parts of bodies; solid or fluid

  2. Coherentadjective

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

  3. Coherentadjective

    logically consistent; -- applied to persons; as, a coherent thinker

  4. Coherentadjective

    suitable or suited; adapted; accordant

  5. Etymology: [L. cohaerens, p. pr. See Cohere.]

Wikidata

  1. Coherent

    The Coherent operating system was a Version 7 Unix clone by the now-defunct Mark Williams Company, originally produced for the PDP-11 in 1980. A port was introduced in 1983 as the first Unix-like system for IBM PC compatible computers. Coherent was able to run on most Intel-based PCs with Intel 8088, 286, 386, and 486 processors. Coherent version 3 for Intel-based PCs required at least a 286, Coherent version 4 for Intel-based PCs required at least a 386. Like a true Unix, Coherent was able to multitask and support multiple users. From version 4 on Coherent also had support for X11 and MGR windowing systems. Later versions of Coherent supported features common in modern Unix-like systems, including a version of MicroEMACS, access to DOS FAT16 File systems, an optimizing C compiler with linker, and a modified version of Taylor UUCP. The final releases of Coherent also fully supported the iBCS COFF binary standard, which allowed binary compatibily with SCO Unix applications, including WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, and several Microsoft applications including QuickBASIC, Microsoft Word, and MultiPlan. There was no support for virtual memory or demand paging. Coherent predates both MINIX and Linux by many years.

British National Corpus

  1. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'coherent' in Adjectives Frequency: #974

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of coherent in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of coherent in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of coherent in a Sentence

  1. Bill Barr:

    You know, you only have five weeks, Mr. President, after an election to make legal challenges, this would have taken a crackerjack team with a really coherent and disciplined strategy. Instead, you have a clown show. No self-respecting lawyer is going anywhere near it. It's just a joke. That's why you are where you are.

  2. Tim Walz:

    Both leaders have implied that organized outsiders, including but not limited to anarchists, white supremacists, and gangs from other states, were behind the destruction and chaos in Minneapolis. POLICE CHIEFS ACROSS US CONDEMN OFFICERS INVOLVED IN GEORGE George Floyds DEATH The sheer number of rioters has made it impossible to make coherent arrests... The capacity to be able to do offensive action was greatly diminished by the sheer scope and seemingly organized nature of the assaults.

  3. Dr. Urooj Umer:

    Stormy situations mask the radiance of events and mold a person's soul coherent to their thrust....

  4. Edward Markey:

    This episode continues to make painfully clear that the Trump administration lacks a coherent, coordinated strategy for denuclearizing North Korea, addressing its other, troubling behaviors, and creating the lasting peace we all seek.

  5. Hussein Abaza:

    We have a lot of challenges but also opportunities, there is a great deal of policy initiative but it is not always coherent and in many cases, it is incomplete. If green growth is to have a chance, we must work to address that.

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