coherent

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...
   • 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.2005, Tom Williamson, Sandlands: The Suffolk Coast and Heaths, Windgather, published 2005, →ISBN, page 15
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
   • Perhaps Khrushchev did have a coherent plan in mind at the time he placed the nuclear missiles in Cuba.2007, Kenneth R. Hammond, Beyond Rationality: The Search for Wisdom in a Troubled Time, Oxford University Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 108

   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.
7. (sheaf theory) 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
8. 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.
9. Finitely generated and such that all finitely generated submodules are finitely presented.
10. Such that every finitely generated (left) ideal is finitely presented.