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Coherent   /koʊhˈɪrənt/   Listen
adjective
Coherent  adj.  
1.
Sticking together; cleaving; as the parts of bodies; solid or fluid.
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.
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."
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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"Coherent" Quotes from Famous Books



... Seneca and Plutarch. Without Montaigne, one feels, the Pensees might never have been written: they represent to-day, for all vigilant readers, rather the painful struggles of a wounded intelligence to fight down the doubts it has caught from contact with other men's thought than any coherent or ...
— Montaigne and Shakspere • John M. Robertson

... perturbed, witnessed all this written on her face, stumbled, stammered, but was unable to find coherent speech; although he saw plainly enough the subterfuge with which even now the girl sought to hedge herself against prying eyes that would have read her secret. She began again, to ask him of his family, the same questions. "Is anything wrong?" she demanded. In some way they ...
— Heart's Desire • Emerson Hough

... order with odd-pinnate leaves. Leaflets alternate and coriaceous. Flowers yellow, in racemes, with caducous bracts and bractlets. Calyx turbinate, with short teeth. Petals exserted, markedly unguiculate. Standard and wings curled. Keel obtuse with its petals slightly or not at all coherent. The staminal tube, cleft above and below or above only. Stamens superior, often almost, and at times entirely, free. Anthers versatile. Ovary pedunculate, with 2 ovules. Style curved. Stigma terminal. Pod orbicular, smooth or spiny, usually containing ...
— The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines • T. H. Pardo de Tavera

... at least to the common progenitors of these and the Stalk-eyed Crustacea. Any such assumption as this was, however, very hazardous, so long as not a single fact properly relating to the Edriophthalma could be adduced in its support, as the structure of this very coherent group seemed to be almost irreconcilable with many peculiarities of the Zoea. Thus, in my eyes, this point long constituted one of the chief difficulties in the application of the Darwinian views to the Crustacea, and I could scarcely venture to hope that I might yet find traces ...
— Facts and Arguments for Darwin • Fritz Muller

... the quiet days by the sea-side, Miss Carew began to reflect on a kind of coherent unity in the delirious talk she had listened to during the worst days of the illness. And she also noticed that Molly, by furtive little jokes and sudden, irrelevant questions, was trying to find out what Miss Carew ...
— Great Possessions • Mrs. Wilfrid Ward


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