coherence

  1. Noun.  Quality of cohering; of being coherent; internal consistency.
  2. Noun.  a logical arrangements of parts.
  3. Noun.  (physics) (''of waves'') the property of having the same wavelength and phase.
  4. Noun.  (linguistics) Semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.

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