coherent

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin haereō Latin cohaereō Latin cohaerēnsder. Middle French coherentder. English coherent From Middle French coherent, from Latin cohaērēns, from co- + haereō. By surface analysis, cohere + -ent.

1. Unified; sticking together; making up a whole.

   “These people professed that the universe was one coherent thing; but they were not fond of the universe.”

   “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.”

2. Orderly, logical and consistent.

   “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.”

   “Perhaps Khrushchev did have a coherent plan in mind at the time he placed the nuclear missiles in Cuba.”

3. Aesthetically ordered.
4. Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious: a coherent design.
5. Of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase, as light in a laser.
6. Attaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature.
7. Belonging to a specific class of sheaves having particularly manageable properties closely linked to the geometrical properties of the underlying space. See Coherent sheaf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
8. In a technical sense, determined by the (topology of) the subsets. Formally, Such that 𝒯 is the finest topology on T for which the inclusion maps ιₐ:C_a→T are continuous, where each C_a is considered with its subspace topology.
9. Finitely generated and such that all finitely generated submodules are finitely presented.
10. Such that every finitely generated (left) ideal is finitely presented.