[ UK /kə‍ʊhˈi‍əɹənt/ ]
[ US /koʊˈhɪɹənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. sticking together
    two coherent sheets
    tenacious burrs
  2. marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts
    a coherent argument
  3. capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner
    she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident
    a lucid thinker
  4. (physics) of waves having a constant phase relation
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How To Use coherent In A Sentence

  • Passengers' eyes divert to Lauren and they begin to mutter incoherently about her.
  • This regress is signalled not only by increases in mental confusion but by typography less and less coherent, the type straying over the page, and with some pages simply blank.
  • The result is a totally incoherent agglomeration of speech-forms -- a baragouin fantastic and unintelligible beyond the power of anyone to imagine who has not heard it .... Two Years in the French West Indies
  • We believe he, either, is turning his Nelson's eye to the scientific reports, or, is plain oblivious of Peter Bergen's cogent and coherent articulation of the demerits of EITs as image destroyers for the US. Cheney wrong on interrogation inquiry facts, Obama official says
  • It is perfectly coherent from a pure domestic viewpoint. Georges Ugeux: It's the Dollar, Stupid
  • The agents transform isolated software applications into modular building blocks for creating a coherent networked system.
  • Regardless of whether those pessimistic readings of the debate are correct, and of whether the zombie idea itself is sound or incoherent, it continues to stimulate fruitful work on consciousness, physicalism, phenomenal concepts, and the relations between imaginability, conceivability, and possibility. Zombies
  • To begin with the surface is coherent – now and again she smiles sadly at the charm he manages to bestow on that foul-smelling tannery – but as she turns the pages she sees it start to break down. Rachel Cusk | Portraits
  • The Executive undertakes to produce a coherent programme of government which the parliament is duty bound to scrutinise, debate and give assent to.
  • The high frequency of I as theme helps to maintain a sense of continuity and a coherent point of view.
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