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Coherent
//kəʊˈhɪə.ɹənt// adj
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Adjective
- 1 Unified; sticking together; making up a whole.
"These people professed that the universe was one coherent thing; but they were not fond of the universe."
- 2 Orderly, logical and consistent.
"At present she is unable to give any coherent account of the past, and the doctors hold out no hopes of the reestablishment of her reason."
- 3 Aesthetically ordered.
- 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.
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- 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.
Adjective
- 1 sticking together wordnet
- 2 (physics) of waves having a constant phase relation wordnet
- 3 marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts wordnet
- 4 capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner wordnet
Etymology
From Middle French coherent, from Latin cohaērēns, from co- + haereō. By surface analysis, cohere + -ent.
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