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Definition: Coherence |
CoherenceNoun1. The state of cohering. 2. Logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "coherence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
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Aerospace | In radar, a relation between two wave trains such that, when they are brought into coincidence, they are capable of producing interpretable interference phenomena. This is limited to those wave trains which have fixed or slowly varying phase relationships with each other.In contract are the rapid interference phenomena produced by the superposition of the more or less randomly scattered waves from hydrometeors. (references) |
Chemistry | These tapes are a sort of adhesive tape to put round packages of gauze, cotton, instruments, etc. to be put into the steriliser. Source: European Union. (references) |
Computing | Refers to a single set of axioms that has exactly one set of conclusions that can be drawn from it(1); in the case of a reasoned analytic argument, connotes the progression from a sequence of premises to a valid conclusion(2). Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A phenomenon related to the existence of a correlation between the phases of two waves or between the values of the phases of one wave at two instants. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mathematics | A property of criteria on which decisions under uncertainty are based which ensures that decisions whose consequences are manifestly undesirable are avoided. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CoherenceSynonyms: coherency (n), cohesion (n), cohesiveness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: incoherence (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Coherence | Noun: coherence, adherence, adhesion, adhesiveness; concretion accretion; conglutination, agglutination, agglomeration; aggregation; consolidation, set, cementation; sticking, soldering; Verb: connection; dependence. |
Junction | Closeness, tightness; Adjective: coherence; combination. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Coherence |
| English words defined with "coherence": Adesmy ♦ consistency ♦ disjointedness ♦ figure ♦ In this connection. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "coherence": coherent reference ♦ feature creature ♦ Scalable Coherent Interface. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | No, you're not because I'm out there and if I see you out there, there's not enough voltage in the universe to electroshock me back into coherence. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) It was a time to become conscious, to give form and coherence to the mystery, and I had been a part of that. (Waking Life; writing credit: Richard Linklater) | |
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Business | Even when a product meets EU standards, the German Robert-Koch-Institute (RKI) still checks for the product's coherence with German laws and regulations. (references) | |
Political Economy | INDONESIA | Even if the new government succeeds in establishing much needed coherence in economic policymaking, daunting challenges remain. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Coherence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.77% of the time. "Coherence" is used about 426 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.77% | 425 | 13,445 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.23% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 426 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "coherence": coherence length ♦ coherence of texts ♦ length of coherence ♦ temporal coherence ♦ time coherence. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
coherence | 39 |
optical coherence tomography | 22 |
coherence data | 5 |
coherence length | 3 |
coherence sense | 3 |
coherence cohesion | 3 |
coherence theory | 2 |
coherence theory truth | 2 |
coherence philosophy | 2 |
coherence optical retina tomography | 2 |
coherence ocular tomography | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "coherence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tërheqje reciproke (coherency, cohesion), lidhje logjike (coherency, consistency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تماسك (cement, cling, cohesion, consistence, consolidate, pastiness, solidarity, solidify, squash, steady, tenacity, unity), ترابط منطقي, التحام (adhesion, coalescence, cohesion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съгласуваност (coherency, consistency, keeping), свързаност (coherency), кохерентност (coherency), последователност (adherence, coherency, cohesion, consecution, consistency, continuity, order, run, sequence, succession). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 凝聚 (Coherency, Condense, Condensed, Condensing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | souvislost (connection, context, continuity, link, linkage, relationship, thread), soudržnost (cohesion, solidarity, tenacity, togetherness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sammenhæng (coherency, cohesion, context, module strength), konsistens (body, consistence, consistency, partial correctness), kohærens. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | consistentie (body, consistence, consistency), coherentie (consistency), samenhang (connection, unity), logische consistentie, afleidbaarheid (consistency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yhtenäisyys (consistency, uniformity, unity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cohesion, cohésion (cohesion), cohérence (consistence, consistency), caractère non-contradictoire (consistency), caractère consistant (consistency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zusammenhang (cohesion, connection, context, contiguity, correlation, interconnection, interrelation, relation, understanding), kohärenz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συνέπεια (aftermath, bearing, consequence, consistence, consistency, corollary, implication, offensive, punctuality), συνοχή (cohesion, consistence, consistency, containment, continuity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לכי"ות, קשר "'יו י ורציף. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | összefüggés (coherency, concatenation, connection, connexion, consistence, consistency, context, contiguity, correlation, interdependence, interrelation, nexus, rapport, relationship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pertalian (correlation), perhubungan (affiliation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | coerenza (coherency, consistence, consistency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 脈絡 (chain of reasoning, context, logical connection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | つじつま (consistency), いっか" (8.333 lbs, a link, consistency, integration, one brush, one flute, one volume), みゃくらく (chain of reasoning, context, logical connection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 일관성 (Coherency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | colhiantyn (cohere). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | sammenheng (context). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oherencecay coerência (coherency, congruence, consentaneity, consistence, consistency, logic). (various references) coerenţã (closeness, coherency). (various references) связь (affair, band, bandage, binding, brace, catena, cement, coherency, communication, communications, connection, connexion, context, coupling, intercommunication, intercourse, joint, junction, juncture, liaison, ligament, ligature, link, linkage, nexus, rapport, relation, relations, relationship, relationships, signalling, stay), связность (coherency, cohesion, compendency, connectivity, linkedness). (various references) povezanost (coherency, connection, connexion, interconnection, relationship, series), koherntnost. (various references) coherencia (coherency). (various references) koherens (coherence of texts, text coherency). (various references) การอยู่ติ"กัน, ความสัมพันธ์เกี่ยวเนื่องกันของส่วนต่างๆ (coherency). (various references) yapışma (adherence, adhesion, bond, clinch, coherency, cohesion, conglutination), uyum (accommodation, accord, accordance, balance, chime, coherency, concert, concinnity, concord, concordance, conformity, congruence, congruity, consecution, consistence, consistency, consonance, harmony, keeping, proportion, rapport, rhythm, scheme, symmetry, symphony, tune, unison), uygunluk (acceptability, accordance, adaptation, adequacy, advisability, appositeness, aptitude, coherency, comeliness, compatibility, concord, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruity, convenience, correctitude, correctness, correspondence, decency, expedience, expediency, felicity, fidelity, fitness, handiness, happiness, opportuneness, pertinence, propitiousness, propriety, relevance, relevancy, seemliness, sufficiency, suitability), tutarlık (coherency, concinnity), eş fazlı olma (coherency), ahenk (accord, accordance, agreement, cadence, chime, coherency, concert, concinnity, concordance, concurrence, congruence, congruity, consonance, echo, euphony, harmony, rhythm, symmetry, symphony, tune, unison). (various references) зчеплення (adherence, adhesion, catenation, clutch, concatenation, coupling, friction, hookup, linkage, linking), зв'язок (association, bonding, bracer, catena, chain, communication, conjunction, connection, connexion, contact, join, liaison, ligament, ligature, link, nexus, pertinence, pertinency, rapport, relationship, thread, tie), послідовність (chain, consistency, continuity, graduality, order, progression, sequence, succession). (various references) tính chặt chẽ (coherency, rigour), sự kết lại với nhau (coherency, interlacement), sự gắn với nhau (coherency), sự dính với nhau (coherency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | contextum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "coherence": coherences. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "coherence": incoherence. (additional references) | |
Words containing "coherence": incoherences. (additional references) | |
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"Coherence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cenerente, Cherenkov, coference, cohearence, coherencet, Colherne. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "coherence" (pronounced kōhi"runs) |
| 8 | k ō h i" r u n s | incoherence. |
| 6 | -h i" r u n s | adherence. |
| 5 | -i" r u n s | appearance, clearance, disappearance, interference, noninterference, perseverance, reappearance. |
| 4 | -r u n s | abhorrence, assurance, circumference, Clarence, entrance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, hindrance, insurance, preponderance, reassurance, recalcitrance, reinsurance, remembrance, teleconference, videoconference. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, clairvoyance, coexistence, cognizance, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, intelligence, interdependence, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, relevance, reliance, reluctance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-e-h-n-o-r" | |
-3 letters: cheero, coerce, cohere, creche, echoer, encore, hereon, reecho. | |
-4 letters: cheer, chore, conch, crone, hence, heron, honer, ocher, ochre, recce, recon. | |
-5 letters: cere, cero, chon, cone, core, corn, croc, eche, echo, erne, here, hern, hero, hoer, hone, horn, once. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-e-h-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: coherences. | |
+2 letters: coherencies, incoherence. | |
+3 letters: incoherences. | |
+4 letters: trichothecene. | |
+5 letters: chemoreception, counterchecked, trichothecenes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6F 68 65 72 65 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- .... . .-. . -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101111 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o h e r e n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006F 0068 0065 0072 0065 006E 0063 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)378174718471806971 |
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