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How to pronounce coherent in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms tenacious
Derivation coherency, coherence, cohere


two coherent sheets.
Type Words
Synonyms consistent, logical, ordered
Derivation cohere, coherency, coherence


a coherent argument.
Type Words
Synonyms logical, lucid
Derivation coherency


she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident.
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Examples of coherent

coherent
He behaved that way also before getting ill, he never was coherent on any issue.
From the economist.com
The scenes in the water flow together nicely, and the action is always coherent.
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That is perfectly coherent and in line with the role of international tribunals.
From the edition.cnn.com
This would keep coherent the pressure on the nuclei being forced to fuse within.
From the sciencedaily.com
Meanwhile, there was no coherent leadership representing Sacramento's interests.
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They are all cool to watch, but it's hard to build a coherent movie around them.
From the sltrib.com
And despite the unorthodox structure, Mr Cianfrance does have a coherent vision.
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She is psychologically ill and is unable to form coherent thoughts at this time.
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But as the election grows closer the campaign becomes messier and less coherent.
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  • Marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts; "a coherent argument"
  • Capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner; "a lucid thinker"; "she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident"
  • (physics) of waves having a constant phase relation
  • Sticking together; "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs"
  • (coherently) in a coherent manner; "she could not talk coherently after the accident"
  • In a thought experiment proposed by the Italian probabilist Bruno de Finetti in order to justify Bayesian probability, an array of wagers is coherent precisely if it does not expose the wagerer to certain loss regardless of the outcomes of events on which he is wagering, provided his opponent ...
  • The Coherent operating system was a Version 7 Unix clone by the now-defunct Mark Williams Company, originally produced for the PDP-11 in 1980. A port was introduced in 1983 as the first Unix-like system for IBM PC compatible computers.
  • (Coherence (category theory)) In mathematics, and particularly category theory a coherence condition is a collection of conditions requiring that various compositions of elementary morphisms are equal. Typically the elementary morphisms are part of the data of the category.
  • (Coherence (cognitive science)) Coherence theory of truth regards truth as coherence with some specified set of sentences, propositions or beliefs. There is no single coherence theory of truth, but rather an assortment of perspectives that are commonly collected under this title. ...