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coherent | union |

As an adjective coherent

is coherent.

As a noun union is

union (action and result).

coherent

English

(Coherence)

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Unified; sticking together; making up a whole.
  • * 1997 , Bernard J. Baars, "Psychology in a World of Sentient, Self-Knowing Beings: A Modest Utopian Fantasy", in Mind and Brain Sciences in the 21st Century (ed. Robert L. Solso), MIT Press (1999), ISBN 9780262193856, page 7:
  • A sentence like this one cannot be understood unless somehow we can store the underlined words for several seconds, while we wait for the rest of the sentence to arrive, with the information needed to complete a coherent thought.
  • * 2005 , Tom Williamson, Sandlands: The Suffolk Coast and Heaths , Windgather (2005), ISBN 9781905119028, page 15:
  • Anglia, is part of a wider phenomenon of the seventh century - the development of recognisable, coherent kingdoms from the fragmented tribal society which emerged from the ruins of Roman Britain.
  • * 2011 , Claire Klein Datnow, Behind the Walled Garden of Apartheid: Growing Up White in Segregated South Africa , Media Mint Publishing (2011), ISBN 9780984277834, page 124:
  • She intimidated me so much that I could hardly get out a coherent sentence in her presence.
  • Orderly, logical and consistent.
  • * 2007 , Kenneth R. Hammond, Beyond Rationality: The Search for Wisdom in a Troubled Time , Oxford University Press (2007), ISBN 9780195311747, page 108:
  • Perhaps Khrushchev did have a coherent plan in mind at the time he placed the nuclear missiles in Cuba.
  • * 2009 , John Polkinghorne & Nicholas Beale, Questions of Truth: Fifty-One Responses to Questions about God, Science, and Belief , Westminster John Knox Press (2009), ISBN 9780664233518, page 23:
  • It will dissolve at death with the decay of the body, but it is a perfectly coherent belief that the faithful God will not allow it to be lost but will preserve it in the divine memory.
  • * 2009 , Carrie Winstanley, Writing a Dissertation For Dummies , John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2009), ISBN 9780470742709, unnumbered page:
  • Presenting a balanced and coherent argument is an important aspect of a nonempirical dissertation and you need to spend some time considering the most useful route through your argument.
  • Aesthetically ordered.
  • Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious: a coherent design.
  • (physics) Of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase, as light in a laser.
  • (botany) Attaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature.
  • (math, of a sheaf) Belonging to a specific class of sheaves having particularly manageable properties closely linked to the geometrical properties of the underlying space.
  • Antonyms

    * incoherent

    union

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
  • (uncountable) The state of being united or joined.
  • (countable) That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
  • (countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
  • * , chapter=22
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
  • (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
  • (countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
  • (countable) The act or state of marriage.
  • (uncountable, archaic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
  • (countable, computing) A data structure that can store any of various items, but only one at a time.
  • A large, high-quality pearl.
  • *, II.3.3:
  • Nonius the senator hath a purple coat as stiff with jewels as his mind is full of vices; rings on his fingers worth 20,000 sesterces, andan union in his ear worth an hundred pounds' weight of gold […].

    Synonyms

    * junction, coalition, combination

    Derived terms

    * banjo union * enterprise union * trades union, trade union * union card * unionised, unionized * European Union * Soviet Union

    See also

    * intersection * (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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