cohere
verbEtymology
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”).
- borrowed from cohaereō
Definitions
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.
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.
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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