Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or state of cohering, especially a logical, orderly, and aesthetically consistent relationship of parts.
- noun Physics The property of being coherent, as of waves.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mathematics See
adherence , 6. - noun The act or state of cohering; a sticking or cleaving of one thing to another, or of parts of the same body to each other, or a cleaving together of two bodies, as by the force of attraction.
- noun Suitable connection or dependence, proceeding from the natural relation of parts or things to each other, as in the parts of a discourse or of any system; consistency.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion.
- noun Connection or dependence, proceeding from the subordination of the parts of a thing to one principle or purpose, as in the parts of a discourse, or of a system of philosophy; a logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts; consecutiveness.
- noun the state of cohering.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Quality of cohering; of being coherent; internal
consistency . - noun a
logical arrangements ofparts - noun physics the property of having the same
wavelength andphase . - noun linguistics
Semantic relationship between different parts of the sametext .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of cohering or sticking together
- noun logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts
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Examples
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That our society has an interest in coherence and strength and commitment and mutually reinforcing loyalties, then if gay couples want to call their union marriage and a state agrees, and several have now, or a religious body will sanction it - and I don't think the state should be able to stop the religious bodies from saying it - I don't think the rest of us should get in the way of that.
Religion 2009
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But still: I like a coherent narrative thread, and so far as coherence is possible in personal narratives, why not pursue it?
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That our society has an interest in coherence and strength and commitment and mutually reinforcing loyalties, then if gay couples want to call their union marriage and a state agrees, and several have now, or a religious body will sanction it - and I don't think the state should be able to stop the religious bodies from saying it - I don't think the rest of us should get in the way of that.
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That our society has an interest in coherence and strength and commitment and mutually reinforcing loyalties, then if gay couples want to call their union marriage and a state agrees, and several have now, or a religious body will sanction it - and I don't think the state should be able to stop the religious bodies from saying it - I don't think the rest of us should get in the way of that.
Current Affairs 2009
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That our society has an interest in coherence and strength and commitment and mutually reinforcing loyalties, then if gay couples want to call their union marriage and a state agrees, and several have now, or a religious body will sanction it - and I don't think the state should be able to stop the religious bodies from saying it - I don't think the rest of us should get in the way of that.
Culture of Death 2009
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That our society has an interest in coherence and strength and commitment and mutually reinforcing loyalties, then if gay couples want to call their union marriage and a state agrees, and several have now, or a religious body will sanction it - and I don't think the state should be able to stop the religious bodies from saying it - I don't think the rest of us should get in the way of that.
Politics 2009
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Kevin Starr said, “You would need a coherent political culture for such a session to occur” — and the lack of such coherence is exactly the problem — “otherwise it would turn into a food fight from Animal House.”
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I think the total lack of coherence from the administartion shows that Bush is right.
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Kevin Starr said, “You would need a coherent political culture for such a session to occur” — and the lack of such coherence is exactly the problem — “otherwise it would turn into a food fight from Animal House.”
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That our society has an interest in coherence and strength and commitment and mutually reinforcing loyalties, then if gay couples want to call their union marriage and a state agrees, and several have now, or a religious body will sanction it - and I don't think the state should be able to stop the religious bodies from saying it - I don't think the rest of us should get in the way of that.
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