Usually means: Logically connected and clearly articulated.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. coherent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. coherent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. coherent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. coherent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. coherent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Coherent, coherent: Wordnik
  7. coherent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. coherent: Wiktionary
  9. coherent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. coherent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Coherent, coherent: Dictionary.com
  12. coherent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. coherent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Coherent (operating system), Coherent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Coherent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. coherent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. coherent: Rhymezone
  18. coherent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. coherent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. coherent: Free Dictionary
  21. coherent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. coherent: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. coherent: Infoplease Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coherent: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coherent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coherent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coherent: Medical dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Coherent: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. Coherent: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coherent: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Unified; sticking together; making up a whole.
adjective:  Orderly, logical and consistent.
adjective:  Aesthetically ordered.
adjective:  Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious: a coherent design.
adjective:  (physics) Of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase, as light in a laser.
adjective:  (botany) Attaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature.
adjective:  (mathematics, sheaf theory, of a sheaf) Belonging to a specific class of sheaves having particularly manageable properties closely linked to the geometrical properties of the underlying space. See Coherent sheaf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
adjective:  (topology, of a topology 𝒯 on a set T with respect to a family C_a of subsets of T) In a technical sense, determined by the (topology of) the subsets. Formally, Such that 𝒯 is the finest topology on T for which the inclusion maps ιₐ:C_a→T are continuous, where each C_a is considered with its subspace topology.
adjective:  (algebra, of a module) Finitely generated and such that all finitely generated submodules are finitely presented.
adjective:  (algebra, of a ring) Such that every finitely generated (left) ideal is finitely presented.

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