cohere

verb
/kəʊˈhɪə/UK/koʊˈhɪɚ/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin haereō Latin cohaereōbor. English cohere Borrowed from Latin cohaereō (“cohere, cling (closely) together, harmonise, be consistent (with), be in agreement with”).

  1. borrowed from cohaereō

Definitions

  1. To stick together physically, by adhesion.

    • Separate molecules will cohere because of electromagnetic force.
    • Nothing coheres the way you expect. Substances float around each other until you crush them all with a blender.
  2. To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose.

    • Members of the party would cohere in the message they were sending.
    • That dream of beautiful Paris was not likely to cohere into substance in the presence of this misfortune.
    • A system that degrades but coheres is a far better place to live than a system that completely collapses.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cohere. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at cohere. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at cohere

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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