coherentadj.n.

/kəʊˈhɪərənt/

Forms: Also 1700s cohær-.

Etymology: < French cohérent, < Latin cohærēnt-em , present participle of cohærēre to cohere v.

A. adj.

a. That sticks or clings firmly together; esp. united by the force of cohesion. Const. to, with. Said of a substance, material, or mass, as well as of separate parts, atoms, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > [adjective] > cohesive > coherent

coherent1578

cohering1845

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 29 The thyrd [bone of the wrest], is with the second coherent.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §298 Most Powders grow more close and coherent by mixture of Water, than by mixture of Oyl.

1712 P. Blair in Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 85 The Fasciculi were more strictly coherent to one another.

1866 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. xx. 178 The metal barium has not yet been obtained in the coherent state.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 21 These rocks are sufficiently coherent to form durable building stones.

b. spec. in Botany: United by cohesion n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > growth, movement, or curvature of parts > [adjective] > cohering or not cohering

free1757

solute1760

connate1785

segregate1793

cohering1796

adherent1806

adnate1830

coherent1830

adglutinate1831

accrete1832

coadunate1839

inapplicate1855

coadnate1866

inseparate1880

1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 171 Seed without its proper integuments, its testa being coherent with the utricle.

1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) i. iv. 37 Primrose: the sepals coherent.

†c. coherent smallpox (see quot. 1724). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective] > abscess > boil > pustule > of smallpox

interstinct1623

confluent1715

coherent smallpox1724

siliquose1825

1724 J. Jurin Small Pox in Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 32 191 Small Pox, of that sort which is call'd the cohærent, or the middle between the distinct and the confluent kind.

d. Various spec. senses in Physics (see quots.).

ΚΠ

1902 C. R. Mann & R. A. Millikan tr. P. Drude Theory of Optics 134 If two sources are to produce interference, their phases must always be either exactly the same or else have a constant difference. Such sources are called coherent.

1937 Frank & Tamm in Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. URSS XIV. 109 (heading) Coherent visible radiation of fast electrons passing through matter.

1938 Physical Rev. 54 500/2 The theory [of Frank and Tamm] implies that the radiation emitted by the electron along its path is coherent.

1939 I. Tamm in Jrnl. Physics USSR I. 454 The experimental investigation of the Cerenkov radiation is made possible..by the fact that in the visible region the intensity of the coherent radiation is much greater than that of the Bremsstrahlung.

1957 Gloss. Terms Nucl. Sci. (Nat. Res. Council, U.S.) 151/2 Scattering of particles or photons in which there are definite phase relationships between the incoming and the scattered waves, is termed coherent scattering.

1958 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 967/2 Coherent oscillator, one which is stabilised by being locked to the transmitter of a radar set for beating with a reflected incoming pulse signal.

1960 N. M. Cooke & J. Markus Electronics & Nucleonics Dict. Coherent radiation, radiation in which there are definite phase relationships between different points in a cross-section of the beam... Interference bands are observed only between coherent beams.

1961 Ann. Reg. 1960 xi. 396 This light was different from that in the flash since the tripping action of the first light to be produced ensured that all subsequent quanta were produced with light waves in synchronism with it. In other words, the light produced from the laser was ‘coherent’.

1963 Standard News Mar. 58/1 The action of a laser is to emit light of very narrow bandwidth and considerable intensity—what is called coherent light.

1965 New Scientist 16 Sept. 676/2 A far simpler data-processing system results from the use of coherent light.

2. transferred of non-material cohesion.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [adjective] > closely, intimately, or permanently joined > cohesive > specifically in non-material association

coherent1656

cohering1665

cohesive1845

1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 68 If there are intelligibles, and those neither sensibles, nor coherent with sensibles.

1660 R. Boyle Seraphic Love 104 Controversies..about Prædestination, and the coherent doctrines.

a1677 I. Barrow Of Love of God (1680) 14 Coherent with this is a..Third property of..Love.

a1718 W. Penn Tracts in Wks. (1726) I. 594 Most times Points are to be prov'd by comparing and weighing Places coherent.

1870 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. ii. ii. 178 Among the successive auditory feelings there are definite and coherent combinations of groups.

1876 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches I. i. iii. 149 An empire, more stable, more coherent than any Turkish rule before it.

†3. Accordant or related logically or in sense; congruent; harmoniously accordant. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [adjective]

samtalec1175

samentalea1300

accordingc1300

accordantc1350

covenablec1384

concordable1393

accorda1413

suant1418

consonant1489

convenablea1500

concordant1512

semblable1513

convenient1526

modulatec1530

harmonical1531

harmoniacal1536

agreeable1540

concurrent1542

suitable1568

concinne1569

harmonial1569

sympathical1570

tunable1573

coherenta1575

conspiring1576

well-consenting1579

well-consorted1583

congruous1599

high-tuned1603

symbolizing1611

unjarring1620

concording1627

congruenta1637

harmonious1638

friendlya1641

unclashing1642

complying1646

symphoniacal1650

consistent1651

consentaneous1652

consentivea1657

symbolical1667

concordiousa1670

sympathetic1673

congenerous1677

symbolizant1685

congenial1693

symphonious1743

harmonic1756

concentual1782

undiscordant1819

concordial1822

attuned1833

connate1836

sympathetical1848

concentuous1850

consenting1858

consilient1867

tuned in1958

a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 39 These places are nothing coherent to the state of our present question.

1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church 100 As most coherent with the Text.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. vii. 39 That time and place with this deceite so lawfull May proue coherent .

a. Of thought, speech, reasoning, etc.: Of which all the parts are consistent, and hang well together.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > [adjective] > marked by reason, well-reasoned

reasonablea1387

coherent1580

sharp1580

firm1600

sober1651

well-reasoned1661

close1670

serried1899

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > clarity > [adjective] > coherent

coherent1580

connected1816

1580 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1676) 991 A Speech not coherent and hanging well together.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 879 Good Coherent Sense.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 313 The story is so coherent.

1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) III. xii. 230 The Norman accounts are anything but satisfactory or coherent.

b. said of persons.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > [adjective] > reasoning well

logical1664

coherent1725

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > clarity > [adjective] > coherent > of persons

coherent1725

1725 I. Watts Logick iii. iv. 490 A coherent Thinker, and a strict Reasoner, is not to be made at once by a Set of Rules.

1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) vi. 59 Be plain and coherent, if you please.

†B. n.

a. One who coheres or combines with others.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > [noun] > other types of companion

consenter1303

pew-fellow1533

bander1563

intercommoner1567

convenera1572

compeer1574

copemate1593

coherent1598

minion1598

barnacle1607

intercommuner1620

shade1667

dangler1728

rafiq1783

esquire1824

Sancho1870

tag-along1961

homeboy1965

bredda1969

arm piece1975

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Complice, a partaker, a complice, a confederate, a coherent.

b. That which coheres or is connected. (In quot. 1657, ‘context’; = coherence n. 5) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > [noun] > context

circumstance1549

context1577

coherence1583

coherent1607

contexture1608

connection1724

environment1874

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > [noun] > that which is connected

adjoint1574

coherent1607

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice viii. 18 A World of such deceites, which do depend and are coherents to his former mischeefes.

1657 T. Burton Diary (1828) II. 306 [He] moved, that the coherents might be read, to explain it.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	coherent
释义	coherentadj.n. /kəʊˈhɪərənt/ Forms: Also 1700s cohær-. Etymology: < French cohérent, < Latin cohærēnt-em , present participle of cohærēre to cohere v. A. adj. 1. a. That sticks or clings firmly together; esp. united by the force of cohesion. Const. to, with. Said of a substance, material, or mass, as well as of separate parts, atoms, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > [adjective] > cohesive > coherent coherent1578 cohering1845 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 29 The thyrd [bone of the wrest], is with the second coherent. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §298 Most Powders grow more close and coherent by mixture of Water, than by mixture of Oyl. 1712 P. Blair in Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 85 The Fasciculi were more strictly coherent to one another. 1866 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. xx. 178 The metal barium has not yet been obtained in the coherent state. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 21 These rocks are sufficiently coherent to form durable building stones. b. spec. in Botany: United by cohesion n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > growth, movement, or curvature of parts > [adjective] > cohering or not cohering free1757 solute1760 connate1785 segregate1793 cohering1796 adherent1806 adnate1830 coherent1830 adglutinate1831 accrete1832 coadunate1839 inapplicate1855 coadnate1866 inseparate1880 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 171 Seed without its proper integuments, its testa being coherent with the utricle. 1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) i. iv. 37 Primrose: the sepals coherent. †c. coherent smallpox (see quot. 1724). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective] > abscess > boil > pustule > of smallpox interstinct1623 confluent1715 coherent smallpox1724 siliquose1825 1724 J. Jurin Small Pox in Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 32 191 Small Pox, of that sort which is call'd the cohærent, or the middle between the distinct and the confluent kind. d. Various spec. senses in Physics (see quots.). ΚΠ 1902 C. R. Mann & R. A. Millikan tr. P. Drude Theory of Optics 134 If two sources are to produce interference, their phases must always be either exactly the same or else have a constant difference. Such sources are called coherent. 1937 Frank & Tamm in Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. URSS XIV. 109 (heading) Coherent visible radiation of fast electrons passing through matter. 1938 Physical Rev. 54 500/2 The theory [of Frank and Tamm] implies that the radiation emitted by the electron along its path is coherent. 1939 I. Tamm in Jrnl. Physics USSR I. 454 The experimental investigation of the Cerenkov radiation is made possible..by the fact that in the visible region the intensity of the coherent radiation is much greater than that of the Bremsstrahlung. 1957 Gloss. Terms Nucl. Sci. (Nat. Res. Council, U.S.) 151/2 Scattering of particles or photons in which there are definite phase relationships between the incoming and the scattered waves, is termed coherent scattering. 1958 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 967/2 Coherent oscillator, one which is stabilised by being locked to the transmitter of a radar set for beating with a reflected incoming pulse signal. 1960 N. M. Cooke & J. Markus Electronics & Nucleonics Dict. Coherent radiation, radiation in which there are definite phase relationships between different points in a cross-section of the beam... Interference bands are observed only between coherent beams. 1961 Ann. Reg. 1960 xi. 396 This light was different from that in the flash since the tripping action of the first light to be produced ensured that all subsequent quanta were produced with light waves in synchronism with it. In other words, the light produced from the laser was ‘coherent’. 1963 Standard News Mar. 58/1 The action of a laser is to emit light of very narrow bandwidth and considerable intensity—what is called coherent light. 1965 New Scientist 16 Sept. 676/2 A far simpler data-processing system results from the use of coherent light. 2. transferred of non-material cohesion. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [adjective] > closely, intimately, or permanently joined > cohesive > specifically in non-material association coherent1656 cohering1665 cohesive1845 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 68 If there are intelligibles, and those neither sensibles, nor coherent with sensibles. 1660 R. Boyle Seraphic Love 104 Controversies..about Prædestination, and the coherent doctrines. a1677 I. Barrow Of Love of God (1680) 14 Coherent with this is a..Third property of..Love. a1718 W. Penn Tracts in Wks. (1726) I. 594 Most times Points are to be prov'd by comparing and weighing Places coherent. 1870 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. ii. ii. 178 Among the successive auditory feelings there are definite and coherent combinations of groups. 1876 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches I. i. iii. 149 An empire, more stable, more coherent than any Turkish rule before it. †3. Accordant or related logically or in sense; congruent; harmoniously accordant. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [adjective] samtalec1175 samentalea1300 accordingc1300 accordantc1350 covenablec1384 concordable1393 accorda1413 suant1418 consonant1489 convenablea1500 concordant1512 semblable1513 convenient1526 modulatec1530 harmonical1531 harmoniacal1536 agreeable1540 concurrent1542 suitable1568 concinne1569 harmonial1569 sympathical1570 tunable1573 coherenta1575 conspiring1576 well-consenting1579 well-consorted1583 congruous1599 high-tuned1603 symbolizing1611 unjarring1620 concording1627 congruenta1637 harmonious1638 friendlya1641 unclashing1642 complying1646 symphoniacal1650 consistent1651 consentaneous1652 consentivea1657 symbolical1667 concordiousa1670 sympathetic1673 congenerous1677 symbolizant1685 congenial1693 symphonious1743 harmonic1756 concentual1782 undiscordant1819 concordial1822 attuned1833 connate1836 sympathetical1848 concentuous1850 consenting1858 consilient1867 tuned in1958 a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 39 These places are nothing coherent to the state of our present question. 1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church 100 As most coherent with the Text. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. vii. 39 That time and place with this deceite so lawfull May proue coherent . View more context for this quotation 4. a. Of thought, speech, reasoning, etc.: Of which all the parts are consistent, and hang well together. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > [adjective] > marked by reason, well-reasoned reasonablea1387 coherent1580 sharp1580 firm1600 sober1651 well-reasoned1661 close1670 serried1899 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > clarity > [adjective] > coherent coherent1580 connected1816 1580 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1676) 991 A Speech not coherent and hanging well together. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 879 Good Coherent Sense. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 313 The story is so coherent. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) III. xii. 230 The Norman accounts are anything but satisfactory or coherent. b. said of persons. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > [adjective] > reasoning well logical1664 coherent1725 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > clarity > [adjective] > coherent > of persons coherent1725 1725 I. Watts Logick iii. iv. 490 A coherent Thinker, and a strict Reasoner, is not to be made at once by a Set of Rules. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) vi. 59 Be plain and coherent, if you please. †B. n. a. One who coheres or combines with others. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > [noun] > other types of companion consenter1303 pew-fellow1533 bander1563 intercommoner1567 convenera1572 compeer1574 copemate1593 coherent1598 minion1598 barnacle1607 intercommuner1620 shade1667 dangler1728 rafiq1783 esquire1824 Sancho1870 tag-along1961 homeboy1965 bredda1969 arm piece1975 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Complice, a partaker, a complice, a confederate, a coherent. b. That which coheres or is connected. (In quot. 1657, ‘context’; = coherence n. 5) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > [noun] > context circumstance1549 context1577 coherence1583 coherent1607 contexture1608 connection1724 environment1874 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > [noun] > that which is connected adjoint1574 coherent1607 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice viii. 18 A World of such deceites, which do depend and are coherents to his former mischeefes. 1657 T. Burton Diary (1828) II. 306 [He] moved, that the coherents might be read, to explain it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < adj.n.a1575
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