coherence

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Alternative forms

• cohærence (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle French coherence, 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 (sǎglasuvanost)
• 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 (svǎrzvane)
• 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 (koherentnost)
• Czech: koherence (cs) f
• Finnish: koherenssi (fi)

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

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Translations to be checked

• French: cohérence

References

• “coherence” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).

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Middle French

Noun

coherence f (uncountable)

1. coherence; quality of being internally consistent

Descendants

• English: coherence
• French: cohérence