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{{also|cohérent}}
==English==
{{was wotd|2012|November|18}}

===Alternative forms===
{{wikipedia|Coherence}}
* {{l|en|cohærent}} {{q|archaic}}

===Etymology===
From {{der|en|frm|coherent}}, from {{der|en|la|cohaērēns}}, from {{m|la|co-}} + {{m|la|haereō}}. {{surf|en|cohere|-ent}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/kəʊˈhɪə.ɹənt/|a=UK}}
** {{audio|en|en-uk-coherent.ogg|a=UK}}
* {{IPA|en|/koʊˈhɛɹ.ənt/|/koʊˈhɪɹ.ənt/|a=US}}
** {{audio|en|en-us-coherent.ogg|a=US}}
* {{IPA|en|/koːˈhɪɹ.ənt/|a=Canada}}
* {{IPA|en|/kəʉˈhɪə.ɹənt/|a=AU}}
** {{audio|en|en-au-coherent.ogg|a=AU}}

===Adjective===
{{en-adj}}

# [[unified|Unified]]; [[sticking]] [[together]]; [[making up]] a [[whole]].
#* {{RQ:Chesterton Orthodoxy|chapter=IV|passage=These people professed that the universe was one '''coherent''' thing; but they were not fond of the universe.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1997|editor=Robert L. Solso|author=Bernard J. Baars|chapter=Psychology in a World of Sentient, Self-Knowing Beings: A Modest Utopian Fantasy|title=Mind and Brain Sciences in the 21st Century|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=27a7g6lMjSYC&pg=PA7|page=7|publisher=MIT Press|year_published=1999|isbn=9780262193856
|passage=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.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2005|author=Tom Williamson|title=Sandlands: The Suffolk Coast and Heaths|page=15|publisher=Windgather|year_published=2005|isbn=9781905119028
|passage=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.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2011|author=Claire Klein Datnow|title=Behind the Walled Garden of Apartheid: Growing Up White in Segregated South Africa|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=8RkwiEEDvfgC&pg=PA124|page=124|publisher=Media Mint Publishing|year_published=2011|isbn=9780984277834
|passage=She intimidated me so much that I could hardly get out a '''coherent''' sentence in her presence.}}
# [[orderly|Orderly]], [[logical]] and [[consistent]].
#* {{RQ:Doyle Return of Sherlock Holmes|chapter=The Adventure of the Second Stain|passage=At present she is unable to give any '''coherent''' account of the past, and the doctors hold out no hopes of the reestablishment of her reason.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=Kenneth R. Hammond|title=Beyond Rationality: The Search for Wisdom in a Troubled Time|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=5e6LduhmU6MC&pg=PA108|page=108|publisher=Oxford University Press|year_published=2007|isbn=9780195311747
|passage=Perhaps Khrushchev did have a '''coherent''' plan in mind at the time he placed the nuclear missiles in Cuba.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2009|author=John Polkinghorne; Nicholas Beale|title=Questions of Truth: Fifty-One Responses to Questions about God, Science, and Belief|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=jiXANZ1CPD4C&pg=PA23|page=23|publisher=Westminster John Knox Press|year_published=2009|isbn=9780664233518
|passage=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.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2009|author=Carrie Winstanley|title=Writing a Dissertation For Dummies|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=lVLyvos7ZOEC&pg=PT82|publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.|year_published=2009|isbn=9780470742709
|passage=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.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2020 December 2|author=Christian Wolmar|title=Wales offers us a glimpse of an integrated transport policy|journal=Rail|page=56|text=The underlying problem with transport policy is that there no '''coherent''' strategy. Ministers have tended to encourage greater use of motor vehicles through both transport and (particularly) planning policies, while simultaneously warning of the terrible consequences of unfettered growth of road use.}}
# [[aesthetic|Aesthetically]] ordered.
# Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious: a coherent design.
# {{lb|en|physics}} Of [[wave]]s having the same [[direction]], [[wavelength]] and [[phase]], as [[light]] in a [[laser]].
# {{lb|en|botany}} Attaching or pressing against an [[organ]] of the same nature.
# {{lb|en|math|[[sheaf theory]]|of a [[sheaf]]}} Belonging to a specific [[class]] of [[sheaf|sheaves]] having particularly manageable properties closely linked to the [[geometrical]] properties of the underlying [[space]]. See {{pedia|Coherent sheaf}}
# {{lb|en|topology|of a [[topology]] <math>\mathcal{T}</math> on a set <math>T</math> with respect to a family <math>\{ C_a \}</math> of subsets of <math>T</math>}} In a technical sense, [[determine]]d by the (topology of) the subsets. Formally, Such that <math>\mathcal{T}</math> is the [[finer|finest]] topology on <math>T</math> for which the inclusion maps <math>\iota_a:C_a \to T</math> are [[continuous]], where each <math>C_a</math> is considered with its [[subspace topology]].
# {{lb|en|algebra|of a [[module]]}} [[finitely generated|Finitely generated]] and such that all finitely generated submodules are [[finitely presented]].
# {{lb|en|algebra|of a [[ring]]}} Such that every [[finitely generated]] (left) [[ideal]] is [[finitely presented]].

====Antonyms====
* {{l|en|incoherent}}

====Derived terms====
{{col|en|anticoherent|autocoherent|coherentism|coherentist|coherentization|coherently|decoherent|discoherent|noncoherent|quasicoherent|semicoherent|supercoherent|uncoherent|unicoherent|coherent light}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|en|adherent}}
* {{l|en|coherence}}
* {{l|en|cohere}}
* {{l|en|cohesive}}
* {{l|en|inherent}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|sticking together}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|свързан}}, {{t+|bg|съгласуван}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|coherent}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|soudržný}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|samenhangend}}, {{t+|nl|coherent}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|koherentti}}, {{t+|fi|yhtenäinen}}
* German: {{t+|de|kohärent}}, {{t+|de|zusammenhängend}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|συνεκτικός}}, {{t+|el|συναφής}}, {{t+|el|συνδεδεμένος}}
* Hebrew: {{t|he|עקבי|m|tr=ikví}}, {{t|he|עקיב|m|tr=akív}}, {{t+|he|קוהרנטי|m|tr=koherénti}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|koherens}}, {{t+|hu|összefüggő}}
* Manx: {{t|gv|co-haagh}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t|nb|koherent}}
*: Nynorsk: {{t|nn|koherent}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|coerente}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|свя́зный}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|coherente}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|зв'я́зний}}
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{{trans-top|orderly, logical and consistent}}
* Albanian: {{t+|sq|koherént}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|ясен}}, {{t+|bg|последователен}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|coherent}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|souvislý}}, {{t+|cs|ucelený}}
* Danish: {{t|da|sammenhængende}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|samenhangend}}, {{t+|nl|coherent}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|kohera}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|koherentti}}, {{t+|fi|johdonmukainen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|cohérent}}
* Galician: {{t|gl|coherente}}
* German: {{t+|de|kohärent}}, {{t+|de|schlüssig}}, {{t+|de|widerspruchsfrei}}, {{t+|de|folgerichtig}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|συνεκτικός}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|egységes}}, {{t+|hu|koherens}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|coerente}}
* Latin: {{t|la|contextus}}
* Maltese: {{t|mt|koerenti}}
* Manx: {{t|gv|resoonagh}}, {{t|gv|colhiantynagh}}
* Occitan: {{t+|oc|coerent}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|منطقی|tr=manteqi}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|koherentny}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|coerente}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|свя́зный}}, {{t+|ru|после́довательный}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|pongail}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|coherente}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|aesthetically ordered}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|sopusointuinen}}
* German: {{t|de|stimmig}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|مرتب|tr=morattab}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|кохерентен}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|coherent}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|koherentní}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|kohera}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|koherentti}}, {{t|fi|samanvaiheinen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|cohérent}}
* German: {{t+|de|kohärent}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|σύμφωνος}}
* Malay: {{t|ms|koheren}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t|nb|koherent}}
*: Nynorsk: {{t|nn|koherent}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|koherentny}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|coerente}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|когере́нтный}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|coherente}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{checktrans-top}}
* Swedish: {{t+check|sv|sammanhängande}}
{{trans-bottom}}

==Catalan==

===Etymology===
{{bor+|ca|la|cohaerēns|cohaerentem}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{rhymes|ca|ent|s=3}}

===Adjective===
{{ca-adj}}

# {{l|en|coherent}}
#: {{ant|ca|incoherent}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|ca|coherentment}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|ca|coherència}}
* {{l|ca|incoherent}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:ca:IEC2}}
* {{R:ca:GDLC}}
* {{R:ca:DNV}}
* {{R:ca:DCVB}}

==Dutch==

===Etymology===
From {{bor|nl|la|cohaerēns}}, possibly via {{bor|nl|fr|cohérent}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{audio|nl|nl-{{pagename}}.ogg}}

===Adjective===
{{nl-adj}}

# [[#English|coherent]]
#: {{syn|nl|samenhangend}}
#: {{ant|nl|incoherent|onsamenhangend}}

====Declension====
{{nl-decl-adj}}

====Derived terms====
{{col|nl
|coherentie
}}

====Related terms====
{{col|nl
|cohesie
|incoherent
}}

==Latin==

===Verb===
{{head|la|verb form|head=cohērent}}

# {{inflection of|la|cohēreō||3|p|pres|actv|indc}}

==Romanian==

===Adjective===
{{ro-adj}}

# {{alternative form of|ro|coerent}}

====Declension====
{{ro-decl-adj}}