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coherence definition

co·her·ence (kō hir′əns, -her′-)

noun

  1. the act or condition of cohering; cohesion
  2. the quality of being logically integrated, consistent, and intelligible; congruity his story lacked coherence
  3. Physics that property of a set of waves or sources of waves in which the oscillations maintain a fixed relationship to each other

Etymology: Fr < L cohaerentia < cohaerens, prp. of cohere

Also coherency co·her′·ency

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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