coherence

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English

Alternative forms

• cohærence (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle French cohérence, from Latin cohaerentia.

Noun

coherence (plural coherences)

1. Quality of cohering; of being coherent; internal consistency.
2. a logical arrangements of parts

   His arguments lacked coherence.

3. (physics) (of waves) the property of having the same wavelength and phase.
4. (linguistics) Semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.

Antonyms

• incoherence

Related terms

• cohesion

Translations

quality of cohering; of being coherent

Bulgarian: съгласуваност (bg) f. Czech: soudržnost (cs) f. Finnish: johdonmukaisuus French: cohérence (fr) f.

German: Kohärenz (de) f., Geschlossenheit (de) f. Greek: συνοχή (el) (synochí) f., συνάφεια (el) (synáfeia) f. Turkish: insicam (tr), yapışma (tr)

logical arrangements of parts

Bulgarian: свързване (bg) n. German: Zusammenhang (de) m.

Greek: συνοχή (el) (synochí) f., συνάφεια (el) (synáfeia) f. Turkish: âhenk (tr), tutarlılık (tr), uyumluluk (tr)

having the same wavelength and phase

Bulgarian: кохерентност (bg) f. Czech: koherence (cs) f. Finnish: koherenssi (fi)

German: Kohärenz (de) f. Greek: συμφωνία (el) (symfonía) f. Turkish: koherent (tr)

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French: cohérence

References

• “coherence” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001