cohærent

Adjective

coherent (comparative more coherent, superlative most coherent)

1. Unified; sticking together; making up a whole.
   • 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.1997, Bernard J. Baars, “Psychology in a World of Sentient, Self-Knowing Beings: A Modest Utopian Fantasy”, in Robert L. Solso, editor, Mind and Brain Sciences in the 21st Century, MIT Press...
2. 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.1904 December, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Second Stain”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC

   Antonyms:

   disjointed

3. Aesthetically ordered.
4. Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious: a coherent design.
5. Of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase, as light in a laser.
6. Attaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature.

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