coherent
adjEtymology
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.
Definitions
Unified
Unified; sticking together; making up a whole.
- These people professed that the universe was one coherent thing; but they were not fond of the universe.
- A sentence like this one cannot be understood unless somehow we can store the underlined words for several seconds, while we wait for the rest of the sentence to arrive, with the information needed to complete a coherent thought.
- Anglia, is part of a wider phenomenon of the seventh century - the development of recognisable, coherent kingdoms from the fragmented tribal society which emerged from the ruins of Roman Britain.
Orderly, logical and consistent.
- At present she is unable to give any coherent account of the past, and the doctors hold out no hopes of the reestablishment of her reason.
- Perhaps Khrushchev did have a coherent plan in mind at the time he placed the nuclear missiles in Cuba.
- It will dissolve at death with the decay of the body, but it is a perfectly coherent belief that the faithful God will not allow it to be lost but will preserve it in the divine memory.
Aesthetically ordered.
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Having a natural or due agreement of parts
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…
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…
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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at coherent. 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 coherent. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at coherent
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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