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Coherent

adjective

Marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts. Synonyms: consistent, logical, ordered.

Capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner. Synonyms: logical, lucid. "She was more coherent than she had been just after the accident"

(physics) of waves having a constant phase relation.

Sticking together. Synonym: tenacious. "Tenacious burrs"

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"Coherent" Quotes from Famous Books

... Instruct my daughter how she shall persever, That time and place, with this deceit so lawful, May prove coherent. Every night he comes With musics of all sorts, and songs compos'd To her unworthiness: it nothing steads us To chide him from our eaves; for he persists, As if his life lay ...

— All's Well That Ends Well • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]

... corruption, inflation, and lack of openness in government economic policy and financial operations. Conditions improved in late 2002 with the withdrawal of a large portion of the invading foreign troops. A number of IMF and World Bank missions have met with the government to help it develop a coherent economic plan, and President KABILA has begun implementing reforms. Much economic activity ...

— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... feeling might lead us to revolution. In either case, the two policies, of revolution in the West and conquest (disguised as liberation of oppressed peoples) in the East, work in together, and dovetail into a strongly coherent whole. ...

— The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism • Bertrand Russell

... we can describe a scene of which few lived to tell the story, is to give the narratives of a number of the survivors. From their several stories a coherent idea of the terrible scene can be formed. From the various accounts given of the terrible explosion by officers of the Roraima, we select as a first example the following ...

— The San Francisco Calamity • Various

... him to entire consciousness. The awful scene, which had just passed over him, came up to his mind in sudden contrast with that bright moment on the deck of the Halcyon in which he had first beheld the coasts of Wales lying in sunshine before him; and his thoughts soon took a coherent arrangement; though he could not yet make out the connexion between the barrel on which he had navigated the ocean and his present bed, nor between that fearful night abroad and the dried herrings and patched ...

— Walladmor: - And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. - In Two Volumes. Vol. I. • Thomas De Quincey

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