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As an adjective, coherent means unified.
Meanings of coherent
9 meaningsadjective
Unified; sticking together; making up a whole.
Orderly, logical and consistent.
Aesthetically ordered.
Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious: a coherent design.
physicsOf waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase, as light in a laser.
botanyAttaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature.
mathof a sheafBelonging to a specific class of sheaves having particularly manageable properties closely linked to the geometrical properties of the underlying space.
Marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts
“a coherent argument”
Similar: consistent, logical, ordered
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).