Coherence
[kə(ʊ)'hɪər(ə)ns;kə(ʊ)'hɪərəns] or [ko'hɪrəns]
Definition
(noun.) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts.
(noun.) the state of cohering or sticking together.
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Definition
(n.) Alt. of Coherency
Editor: Nat
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Cohesion, union, connection, dependence.[2]. Consistency, congruity, correspondence, harmony, agreement.
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Examples
- Only the single, the uniform, assures coherence and harmony. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In five minutes more, the talk which he still kept up with me, failed in coherence. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The coherence will continue until the filings are mechanically shaken, when they will at once fall apart, as it were, insulation will be established, and the current will be broken. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Objects have a certain coherence even as they appear to our senses; but this coherence is much greater and more uniform, if we suppose the object. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This coherence, therefore, in their changes is one of the characteristics of external objects, as well as their constancy. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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