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coherent

Academic Word List, sublist 9.

About 7.51 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Unified; sticking together; making up a whole.
  2. adjective Orderly, logical and consistent.
  3. adjective Aesthetically ordered.
  4. adjective Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious: a coherent design.
  5. adjective Of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase, as light in a laser.
  6. adjective Attaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature.
  7. adjective 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. adjective 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:Ca→T are continuous, where each Ca is considered with its subspace topology.

Similar words

logical rational consistent lucid ordered orderly tenacious adhesive seamless cohesiveness

Often followed by

and whole system with picture set light account theory

Word family

coherence coherently

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