coherence Definition
co·her·ence (kō hir′əns, -her′-)
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
Etymology: Fr < L cohaerentia < cohaerens, prp. of cohere
coherence Synonyms
coherence
n.
Cohesion
stickiness, viscosity, tackiness, gluiness, gumminess, cementation, congelation, soldering, adhesiveness, glutinousness, sticking together, agglutination, coagulation, viscidity, glutinosity, adherence, set, amalgamation, fusion, sticking, union, adhesion, attachment, tenacity, conglutination, cohesiveness, consistency, solidarity, inseparability, inseparableness. Closely built relationship
consistency, congruity, logical connection, connectedness, sense, logic, rationality, intelligibility, clarity, continuity, connection, interconnection, integration, integrity, consonance, agreement, harmony, concord, correspondence, construction, unity. Antonyms
inconsistency, incoherence, disjunction.
coherence Telecom Definition
coherence Usage Examples
Converse of object
- radiate: The notion that individuals can radiate coherence in the environment is a documented phenomenon.
- lend: Introduction " Liberal policies are lent coherence only by their incoherence.
- lack: Their ideas, thoughts or reasoning are lacking coherence.
- ensure: The ECGD review has clearly failed to ensure the coherence of British government policy.
- bring: A space agency format might bring greater coherence to delivery.
Adjective modifier
- hyperstructural: This might affect hyperstructural coherence in various ways, depending on the distinctive character of the hyperstructure and the expectations of the reader.
- textual: Regular weaknesses, especially with sentence construction, punctuation, textual coherence, appropriateness.
- conceptual: We need to evaluate those theories both for conceptual coherence and for evidence.
- thematic: These parallels in mood and imagery reinforce the view of a thematic coherence linking genres as disparate as the tournament and the musical drama.
- spatial: Temporal and spatial coherence are more or less complete, but strictly limited to the skies above the Solomon Islands.
- temporal: Often used in video compression algorithms that exploit the temporal coherence of image sequences.
Modifies a noun
- tomography: Time-resolved optical coherence tomography was used to study the surface profile of a painting during changes in the environment surrounding the object.
- theorist: The coherence theorist does not necessarily do away with the idea of correspondence, perhaps in a weakened sense.
- timescale: This implies that the atmospheric coherence timescale may have been longer than at this instant.
Noun used with modifier
- multiple-quantum: These coherences are then converted directly to multiple-quantum coherences rather than via a population state.
- quantum: The organism is run, in the ideal, on quantum coherence.
- discourse: Discourse connectives enable discourse coherence relations to be studies empirically.
Preposition: in
- microtubules: Quantum coherence in microtubules: a neural basis for emergent consciousness?
- consciousness: It'll be on the basis of the effectiveness of coherence in world consciousness.
Preposition: of
organism: The unity of purpose and coherence of an individual organism is incomparable to that of a group.
Browse dictionary entries near coherence
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