Meaning

• Unified; sticking together; making up a whole.

• Orderly, logical and consistent.

• Aesthetically ordered.

• Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious: a coherent design.

• Of waves having the same direction, wavelength and phase, as light in a laser.

• Attaching or pressing against an organ of the same nature.

• (of a sheaf) Belonging to a specific class of sheaves having particularly manageable properties closely linked to the geometrical properties of the underlying space.