Coherent
adjective
Having its parts logically connected and making clear sense together.
She made a coherent argument in her speech.
Often appears as...
- coherent argument
- coherent explanation
adjective
In physics, being in a state where waves have the same frequency and phase.
In a laser, the light rays are coherent.
Often appears as...
- coherent light
- coherent waves
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Having its parts logically connected and making clear sense together.
She made a coherent argument in her speech.
Often appears as...
- coherent argument
- coherent explanation
adjective
In physics, being in a state where waves have the same frequency and phase.
In a laser, the light rays are coherent.
Often appears as...
- coherent light
- coherent waves
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Logical Flow
Use 'coherent' to describe thoughts or arguments that flow smoothly, where each part makes sense with the others.
His essay was coherent, each paragraph connecting neatly to the next.
Pro Tip 2/3Clear Communication
A coherent message is easy to understand; there's no confusion or ambiguity.
When giving instructions, it's important to be coherent.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Jargon
'Coherent' suggests simplicity. Even complex ideas should be expressed in a way everyone can grasp.
Despite the technical subject, her presentation was surprisingly coherent.
Pro Tip 1/3Logical Flow
Use 'coherent' to describe thoughts or arguments that flow smoothly, where each part makes sense with the others.
His essay was coherent, each paragraph connecting neatly to the next.
Pro Tip 2/3Clear Communication
A coherent message is easy to understand; there's no confusion or ambiguity.
When giving instructions, it's important to be coherent.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Jargon
'Coherent' suggests simplicity. Even complex ideas should be expressed in a way everyone can grasp.
Despite the technical subject, her presentation was surprisingly coherent.
Pro Tip 1/3Logical Flow
Use 'coherent' to describe thoughts or arguments that flow smoothly, where each part makes sense with the others.
His essay was coherent, each paragraph connecting neatly to the next.
Pro Tip 2/3Clear Communication
A coherent message is easy to understand; there's no confusion or ambiguity.
When giving instructions, it's important to be coherent.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Jargon
'Coherent' suggests simplicity. Even complex ideas should be expressed in a way everyone can grasp.
Despite the technical subject, her presentation was surprisingly coherent.
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What would happen if we...
They don't know which way the future's going. This is an em designer, who conceives of a large system and then breaks recursively into copies who elaborate that, so ems can implement larger, more coherent designs. This an emulation plumber who remembers that every day, for the last 20 years, they only ever worked two hours a day, a life of leisure.
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Chris Domas: The 1s and...
The biggest question was, what do we want to translate it to? What do our brains do perfectly naturally that we could exploit? My answer was vision. We have a tremendous capability to analyze visual information. We can combine color gradients, depth cues, all sorts of these different signals into one coherent picture of the world around us.
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How much of what you see...
the brain constructs the world we perceive from incomplete information. For example, our eyes have blind spots where the optic nerve blocks part of the retina. When the visual cortex processes light into coherent images, it fills in these blind spots with information from the surrounding area.
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How Syria's architecture...
have nurtured sectarian divisions and hatred. Over time, the united city has morphed into a city center with ghettos along its circumference. And in turn, the coherent communities became distinct social groups, alienated from each other and alienated from the place. From my point of view,
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This is your brain on...
become aligned or similar across all listeners. However, only when we use the full, engaging, coherent story do the responses spread deeper into the brain into higher-order areas, which include the frontal cortex and the parietal cortex, and make all of them respond very similarly.
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Celeste Headlee: 10 ways...
but rarely do they have an opportunity to hone their interpersonal communications skills. It might sound like a funny question, but we have to ask Is there any 21st-century skill more important than being able to sustain coherent, confident conversation?"
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The Blind Spots of the...
So while we figure out exactly how to design this regime, the countries at the heart of the scramble for resources should receive adequate support, competent and coherent support to face off the joint challenges of geopolitical competition
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The era of higher ideals...
the rituals the systems the processes of a company of the culture and it must influence the communication that happens inside the company and outside and all of that has to be coherent and of course it has to impact the experience people
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Grave Secrets of...
the associated sediments The Associated evidence treating I suppose the dig site like scene of a crime we were able to piece together these shreds of evidence to a much more coherent story of what life was like in the prehistoric past
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Where Did the Easter...
investigations made it clear that large teams of people were needed and that implied that there must have been at one time a flourishing and coherent community who would work together to create these astonishing monuments
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What would happen if we...
They don't know which way the future's going. This is an em designer, who conceives of a large system and then breaks recursively into copies who elaborate that, so ems can implement larger, more coherent designs. This an emulation plumber who remembers that every day, for the last 20 years, they only ever worked two hours a day, a life of leisure.
Video examples
Chris Domas: The 1s and...
The biggest question was, what do we want to translate it to? What do our brains do perfectly naturally that we could exploit? My answer was vision. We have a tremendous capability to analyze visual information. We can combine color gradients, depth cues, all sorts of these different signals into one coherent picture of the world around us.
Video examples
How much of what you see...
the brain constructs the world we perceive from incomplete information. For example, our eyes have blind spots where the optic nerve blocks part of the retina. When the visual cortex processes light into coherent images, it fills in these blind spots with information from the surrounding area.
Video examples
How Syria's architecture...
have nurtured sectarian divisions and hatred. Over time, the united city has morphed into a city center with ghettos along its circumference. And in turn, the coherent communities became distinct social groups, alienated from each other and alienated from the place. From my point of view,
Video examples
This is your brain on...
become aligned or similar across all listeners. However, only when we use the full, engaging, coherent story do the responses spread deeper into the brain into higher-order areas, which include the frontal cortex and the parietal cortex, and make all of them respond very similarly.
Video examples
Celeste Headlee: 10 ways...
but rarely do they have an opportunity to hone their interpersonal communications skills. It might sound like a funny question, but we have to ask Is there any 21st-century skill more important than being able to sustain coherent, confident conversation?"
Video examples
The Blind Spots of the...
So while we figure out exactly how to design this regime, the countries at the heart of the scramble for resources should receive adequate support, competent and coherent support to face off the joint challenges of geopolitical competition
Video examples
The era of higher ideals...
the rituals the systems the processes of a company of the culture and it must influence the communication that happens inside the company and outside and all of that has to be coherent and of course it has to impact the experience people
Video examples
Grave Secrets of...
the associated sediments The Associated evidence treating I suppose the dig site like scene of a crime we were able to piece together these shreds of evidence to a much more coherent story of what life was like in the prehistoric past
Video examples
Where Did the Easter...
investigations made it clear that large teams of people were needed and that implied that there must have been at one time a flourishing and coherent community who would work together to create these astonishing monuments
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Christopher Alexander
American Architect
This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.
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Kailash Satyarthi
Indian Activist
We as the governments, workers, employers and civil society must declare a war on child labour. This war cannot be won without strong, committed, coherent, and well-resourced worldwide movement. Equally needed is a genuine and active coordination between intergovernmental agencies at the highest level.
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Charlie Sykes
American
There once was a time when employers could be reasonably certain that college graduates had a basic sense of the world and, as a minimum, could write a coherent business letter. That is simply no longer the case, as some academic leaders appear ready to admit.
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Damon Galgut
South African Playwright
It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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Mary Beard
Thinking through how you look to your enemies is helpful. That doesn't mean that your ideology is wrong and theirs is right, but maybe you have to recognise that they have one - and that it may be logically coherent. Which may be uncomfortable.
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Kenneth L. Pike
American Sociologist
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.
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Saul Bellow
American Novelist
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
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Lynn Abbey
American Author
Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.
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Jeffrey Eugenides
American Novelist
One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
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Fred Hoyle
English Scientist
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
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Christopher Alexander
American Architect
This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.
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Kailash Satyarthi
Indian Activist
We as the governments, workers, employers and civil society must declare a war on child labour. This war cannot be won without strong, committed, coherent, and well-resourced worldwide movement. Equally needed is a genuine and active coordination between intergovernmental agencies at the highest level.
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Charlie Sykes
American
There once was a time when employers could be reasonably certain that college graduates had a basic sense of the world and, as a minimum, could write a coherent business letter. That is simply no longer the case, as some academic leaders appear ready to admit.
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Damon Galgut
South African Playwright
It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
Quote examples
Mary Beard
Thinking through how you look to your enemies is helpful. That doesn't mean that your ideology is wrong and theirs is right, but maybe you have to recognise that they have one - and that it may be logically coherent. Which may be uncomfortable.
Quote examples
Kenneth L. Pike
American Sociologist
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.
Quote examples
Saul Bellow
American Novelist
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
Quote examples
Lynn Abbey
American Author
Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.
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Jeffrey Eugenides
American Novelist
One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
Quote examples
Fred Hoyle
English Scientist
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
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