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Equilibrium vs Coherence - What's the difference?

equilibrium | coherence |

As nouns the difference between equilibrium and coherence

is that equilibrium is the condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change while coherence is quality of cohering; of being coherent; internal consistency.

equilibrium

English

Alternative forms

* “ equilibrium]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed. (dated)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change.
  • * 1999 , , Agent smith speech
    • Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus.
  • (physics) The state of a body at rest or in uniform motion in which the resultant of all forces on it is zero.
  • (chemistry) The state of a reaction in which the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are the same.
  • Mental balance.

    • Synonyms

    * (a condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced) balance, stability * (mental balance) sanity

    Antonyms

    * (a condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced) disequilibrium, imbalance, instability * (in physics) disequilibrium, non-equilibrium * (mental balance) insanity, instability, madness

    Hypernyms

    * (in physics) stasis

    Derived terms

    * disequilibrium * dynamic equilibrium * equilibrist * Nash equilibrium * neutral equilibrium * stable equilibrium * static equilibrium * unstable equilibrium

    Related terms

    * (l) * (l)

    References

    English nouns with irregular plurals

    coherence

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    • Antonyms

    * incoherence

    Related terms

    * cohesion

    References

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