coherent
Meanings
Adjective
- marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts
- "a coherent argument"
- (physics) of waves having a constant phase relation
Adjective Satellite
- capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner
- "she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident"
- sticking together
- "two coherent sheets"
Adj
- Unified; sticking together; making up a whole.
- Orderly, logical and consistent.
- Aesthetically ordered.
- Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious: a coherent design.
- Of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase, as light in a laser.
- Attaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature.
- Belonging to a specific class of sheaves having particularly manageable properties closely linked to the geometrical properties of the underlying space. See Coherent sheaf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- In a technical sense, determined by the (topology of) the subsets. Formally, Such that 𝒯 is the finest topology on T for which the inclusion maps ιₐ:C_a→T are continuous, where each C_a is considered with its subspace topology.
- Finitely generated and such that all finitely generated submodules are finitely presented.
- Such that every finitely generated (left) ideal is finitely presented.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle French coherent, from Latin cohaērēns, from co- + haereō. By surface analysis, cohere + -ent.
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