Coherence vs Alignment - What's the difference?
coherence | alignment |
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.
An arrangement of items in a line.
The process of adjusting a mechanism such that its parts are aligned; the condition of having its parts so adjusted.
An alliance of factions.
(astronomy) The conjunction of two celestial objects.
(transport) The precise route or course taken by a linear way (road, railway, footpath, etc.) between two points.
(gaming) In a roleplaying game, one of a set number of philosophical attitudes a character can take.
(bioinformatic) A way of arranging DNA, RNA or protein sequences in order to identify regions of similarity.
As nouns the difference between coherence and alignment
is that coherence is quality of cohering; of being coherent; internal consistency while alignment is an arrangement of items in a line.coherence
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- ''His arguments lacked coherence .
