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The definition of coherence is something logical or consistent and something that makes sense as a whole.

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An example of coherence is an argument that has no inconsistencies.

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See coherence in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

the act or condition of cohering; cohesion
the quality of being logically integrated, consistent, and intelligible; congruity: his story lacked coherence
Physics that property of a set of waves or sources of waves in which the oscillations maintain a fixed relationship to each other

Origin: Fr < L cohaerentia < cohaerens, prp. of cohere

See coherence in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

The quality or state of cohering, especially a logical, orderly, and aesthetically consistent relationship of parts.
Physics The property of being coherent, as of waves.

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