Coherence
Alternative forms
- cohærence archaic
Origin
From Middle French coherence, from Latin cohaerentia.
Full definition of coherence
Noun
coherence
(plural coherences)- Quality of cohering; of being coherent; internal consistency.
- a logical arrangement of parts''His arguments lacked coherence.
- (physics, of waves) the property of having the same wavelength and phase.
- (linguistics) Semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.