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COHERENCE definition: 1. the situation when the parts of something fit together in a natural or reasonable way: 2. the…. Learn more.
The meaning of COHERENCE is the quality or state of cohering. How to use coherence in a sentence.
When something has coherence, all of its parts fit together well. An argument with coherence is logical and complete — with plenty of supporting facts.
Coherence is a state or situation in which all the parts or ideas fit together well so that they form a united whole. The anthology has a surprising sense of coherence.
Coherence describes the way anything, such as an argument (or part of an argument) “hangs together.” If something has coherence, its parts are well-connected and all heading in the same direction.
A property holding for two or more waves or fields when each individual wave or field is in phase with every other one. Lasers, for example, emit almost perfectly coherent light; all the photons emitted by a laser have the same frequency and are in phase.
noun. /kəʊˈhɪərəns/ /kəʊˈhɪrəns/ [uncountable, singular] (formal) the situation in which all the parts of something fit together well. The points you make are fine, but the whole essay lacks coherence. He managed to impose a new coherence on the machinery of the state. opposite incoherence. Extra Examples. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Join us.
