Definition of COHERENT

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.

Antonyms

incoherent

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