coherence

See also: cohérence

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle French coherence, from Latin cohaerentia.

Noun

coherence (countable and uncountable, plural coherences)

  1. The quality of cohering, or being coherent; internal consistency.
    His arguments lacked coherence.
  2. A logical arrangement of parts.
  3. (physics, of waves) The property of having the same wavelength and phase.
  4. (linguistics) A semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.

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Translations

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References

  • “coherence” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2018.

Middle French

Noun

coherence f (uncountable)

  1. coherence; quality of being internally consistent

Descendants

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