coherent

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.

Pronunciation

/kəʊˈhɪə.ɹənt/ en-uk-coherent.ogg /koʊˈhɛɹ.ənt/ /koʊˈhiɹ.ənt/ en-us-coherent.ogg /koːˈhɪɹ.ənt/ /kəʉˈhɪə.ɹənt/ en-au-coherent.ogg /kɐʉˈhiə.ɹənt/ /kɐʉˈhiːə.ɹənt/

Word forms

coherent more coherent most coherent cohærent

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin haereō Latin cohaereō Latin cohaerēnsder. Middle French coherentder. English coherent From Middle French coherent, from Latin cohaērēns, from co- + haereō. By surface analysis, cohere + -ent.

Antonyms

incoherent disjointed

Related words

adherent coherence cohere cohesive inherent

Derived words

anticoherent autocoherent coherentism coherentist coherentization coherent light coherently decoherent discoherent noncoherent quasicoherent semicoherent supercoherent uncoherent unicoherent

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