Meaning

10 senses
  1. Unified; sticking together; making up a whole.

    kohärent, zusammenhängend

    свя́зныйsvjáznyj

    зв'я́знийzvʺjáznyj

    sticking together

  2. Orderly, logical and consistent.

    kohärent, schlüssig, widerspruchsfrei

    свя́зныйsvjáznyj, после́довательныйposlédovatelʹnyj

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

  3. Aesthetically ordered.

    stimmig

  4. Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious: a coherent design.

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

    kohärent

    когере́нтныйkogeréntnyj

    (physics) of waves having a constant phase relation

  6. Attaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature.

  7. Belonging to a specific class of sheaves having particularly manageable properties closely linked to the geometrical properties of the underlying space. See Coherent sheaf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

  8. In a technical sense, determined by the (topology of) the subsets. Formally, Such that 𝒯 is the finest topology on T for which the inclusion maps ιₐ:C_a→T are continuous, where each C_a is considered with its subspace topology.

  9. Finitely generated and such that all finitely generated submodules are finitely presented.

  10. Such that every finitely generated (left) ideal is finitely presented.

Examples

19 sentences
  1. Was Tom coherent?

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  2. Tom wasn't terribly coherent.

    deTom hat sich nicht sehr schlüssig geäußert.

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  3. Don't expect a coherent answer.

    ruНе жди вразумительного ответа.

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  4. The two sentences are both coherent.

    deDie beiden Sätze ergeben beide Sinn.

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  5. For certain things it's very coherent.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
sticking together:
Русский
By meaning 3
sticking together:
orderly, logical and consistent:
of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
sticking together:
orderly, logical and consistent:
aesthetically ordered:

Origin

From Middle French coherent, from Latin cohaērēns, from co- + haereō. By surface analysis,

From Middle French coherent, from Latin cohaērēns, from co- + haereō. By surface analysis, cohere + -ent.

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Forms

more coherent, most coherent
Comparativemore coherent Lesson
Superlativemost coherent Lesson

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

21 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
coherent — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto