coherence

名词 n.
/kəʊˈhɪəɹ.ən(t)s/    /koʊˈhɪɹ.ən(t)s/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of cohering, or being coherent; internal consistency. countable,uncountable
    — His arguments lacked coherence.
  2. The quality of forming a unified whole. countable,uncountable
    — When I come to his connection with Blanche Stroeve I am exasperated by the fragmentariness of the facts at my disposal. To give my story coherence I should describe the progress of their tragic union, but I know nothing of the three months during which they lived together.
  3. A logical arrangement of parts, as in writing. countable,uncountable
    — In a lesson on coherence in academic writing, students engaged in the following discussion on the online platform TodaysMeet.
  4. The property of having the same wavelength and phase. countable,uncountable
  5. A semantic relationship between different parts of the same text. countable,uncountable

词形变化

coherences plural cohærence alternative,archaic

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin haereō
Latin cohaereō
Latin cohaerēns
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Latin cohaerentiader.
Middle French coherenceder.
English coherence
From Middle French coherence, from Latin cohaerentia. By surface analysis, cohere + -ence.
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