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coherence

Pronunciation: /kəʊˈhɪəɹ.ən(t)s/

The English word “coherence” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The quality of cohering, or being coherent; internal consistency.
  2. The quality of forming a unified whole.
  3. A logical arrangement of parts, as in writing.
  4. The property of having the same wavelength and phase.
  5. A semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.

Etymology

From Middle French coherence, from Latin cohaerentia. By surface analysis, cohere + -ence.

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