Agreement vs Coherence - What's the difference?
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(countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
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, title= (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
(uncountable, legal) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
(uncountable, linguistics) Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.
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An agreeable quality.
* 1650 , (John Donne), "Elegie XVII":
Quality of cohering; of being coherent; internal consistency.
a logical arrangement of parts
(physics, of waves) the property of having the same wavelength and phase.
(linguistics) Semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.
Agreement is a related term of coherence.
As nouns the difference between agreement and coherence
is that agreement is (countable) an understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct while coherence is coherence, consistence, consistency.agreement
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Noun
Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe.
- Having clarified what we mean by ‘Person? and ‘Number?, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement . More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must ‘agree? with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject.
- Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].
Synonyms
* (An understanding to follow a course of conduct) concord, convention, covenant, meeting of the minds, pact, treaty * (A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion) congeniality, concurrence, harmony, accord * (A legally binding contract) settlement * concord * (An agreeable quality) amenity, pleasantness, nicenessDerived terms
* agreement coorporation * agreement in principle * Buttonwood Agreement * collective agreement * concession agreement * framework agreement * gentleman's agreement * heads of agreement * in agreement * interest rate agreement * knock-for-knock agreement * letter agreement * margin agreement * Multilateral Agreement * nondisclosure agreement * option agreement * partnership agreement * prenuptial agreement * purchase agreement * sales agreement * Schengen Agreement * security agreement * service level agreement * single union agreement * Smithsonian Agreement * standby agreement * standstill agreement * strike an agreement with * subordination agreement * subscription agreement * throughput agreement * tolling agreement * tripartite agreement * underwriting agreement * working agreementHyponyms
* (An understanding to follow a course of conduct) conspiracySee also
* consent, approvalSee also
* consensus * (wikipedia)Statistics
* ----coherence
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- ''His arguments lacked coherence .