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Coherent

adjective

Marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts. Synonyms: consistent, logical, ordered.

Capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner. Synonyms: logical, lucid. "She was more coherent than she had been just after the accident"

(physics) of waves having a constant phase relation.

Sticking together. Synonym: tenacious. "Tenacious burrs"

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"Coherent" Quotes from Famous Books

... began to murmur semi-coherent plans for the future, in which she detected the word ...

— The Side Of The Angels - A Novel • Basil King

... all this written on her face, stumbled, stammered, but was unable to find coherent speech; although he saw plainly enough the subterfuge with which even now the girl sought to hedge herself against prying eyes that would have read her secret. She began again, to ask him of his family, the same questions. "Is anything wrong?" she demanded. ...

— Heart's Desire • Emerson Hough

... Pensees might never have been written: they represent to-day, for all vigilant readers, rather the painful struggles of a wounded intelligence to fight down the doubts it has caught from contact with other men's thought than any coherent ...

— Montaigne and Shakspere • John M. Robertson

... machine that should happen to be out of order would unhinge all nature. For the springs and movements of a watch are not put together with so much art and niceness as those of the universe. What then must be a design so extensive, so coherent, so excellent, so beneficial? The necessity of those laws, instead of deterring me from inquiring into their author, does but heighten my curiosity and admiration. Certainly, it required a hand equally artful and powerful to put in His work an order equally simple ...

— The Existence of God • Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon

... moment I had forgotten all about the ship, and was only conscious of Yamba swimming close by my side, and occasionally gripping my long hair when she thought I was going under. We righted the canoe and climbed in as quickly as we could. I think I was dazed and incapable of any coherent thought. As I collapsed in the bottom of the canoe, I suddenly realised that Yamba and I were alone; and sitting up, I gasped, "The girls, the girls! Where are they? Oh, where are they? We must ...

— The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont - as told by Himself • Louis de Rougemont

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