NOUN
- the state of cohering or sticking together
- logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts
How To Use coherency In A Sentence
- Unlike other spiritual traditions, including Gnosticism, Pantheism, and forms of Christian apophasis and via negativa, the Buddhist understanding of oneness does not rely on the monotheistic perception of a centrally located source or an indwelling force or principle that acts to create coherency. Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
- Bute, who tells his constituents at Bute, that the true secret of the apparent incoherency in the conduct of Government, of that subsultory movement from almost passive _surveillance_ to the most intense development of power, is to be found in some error, some lapse as yet unknown, on the part of the conspirators. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843
- Cherry-picked facts, claims made out of context, and physical incoherency are hallmarks of their publications. Scientists who favor ideology over fact
- The breakthrough originated with researcher Hao Li of Motorola, Inc., who succeeded in depositing the metal oxide directly onto silicon with no intervening layer of silicon oxide producing "coherency" between the two crystal structures-the unique matching up perfectly of one atom to the next across the metal-oxide / Si interface. Nano Tech Wire
- Nearly a solid week of fogginess, bleariness, incoherency, and bone-cracking yawns. 2/26/07: I'm back. Sort of.
- Judging the actors is difficult because of the incoherency of the story and inanity of the dialogue.
- The trouble is that one is likely to think either that there is no plausible general argument in favor of the existence of such processes or that there is some logical incoherency in the very idea of them.
- I think our biggest problem at the moment is the incoherency of the Obama administration's policy towards Iran. Palin for President?
- Perhaps we appreciate that poll-driven politics is insecure, rudderless, inconsequential and lacking in coherency, so we direct our attention inward to find meaning.
- Although her father seemed to be in good physical condition, the measure of his incoherency was alarming.