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- Dictionarycoherence/kə(ʊ)ˈhɪərəns/
noun
- 1. the quality of being logical and consistent: "this raises further questions on the coherence of state policy"
- 2. the quality of forming a unified whole: "the group began to lose coherence and the artists took separate directions"
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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 comes from a Latin word meaning “to stick together." When you say policies, arguments and strategies are coherent, you’re praising them for making sense.
noun. 1. the act or condition of cohering; cohesion. 2. the quality of being logically integrated, consistent, and intelligible; congruity. his story lacked coherence. 3. Physics. that property of a set of waves or sources of waves in which the oscillations maintain a fixed relationship to each other.
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.
Coherence definition: The quality or state of cohering, especially a logical, orderly, and aesthetically consistent relationship of parts.
