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Definition: COHERING

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. To adhere, join, connect, add or participate. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. To accede. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. To attach, affix, append, fasten or secure.[Eve - graph theoretic]
4. Present participle conjugation of the verb cohere.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(cohere)
1. Come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The sushi rice grains cohere".[Wordnet].
2. Cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole; "Religion can cohere social groups".[Wordnet].
3. Have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results; "the principles by which societies cohere".[Wordnet].
4. Base verb from the following inflections: cohering, cohered, coheres, coherer, coherers, coheringly and coheredly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adjective 1. Being adhesive. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. Being concurring. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. Being corresponding. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. Being binding. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. Being grasping.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008.

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"Cohering" is a common misspelling or typo for: coshering.

Date "Cohering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references)

Definition: COHERING

Part of SpeechDefinition
Verb1. To adhere, join, connect, add or participate. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. To accede. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. To attach, affix, append, fasten or secure.[Eve - graph theoretic]
4. Present participle conjugation of the verb cohere.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(cohere)
1. Come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The sushi rice grains cohere".[Wordnet].
2. Cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole; "Religion can cohere social groups".[Wordnet].
3. Have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results; "the principles by which societies cohere".[Wordnet].
4. Base verb from the following inflections: cohering, cohered, coheres, coherer, coherers, coheringly and coheredly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adjective1. Being adhesive. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. Being concurring. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. Being corresponding. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. Being binding. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. Being grasping.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008.

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Date "COHERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references)

Specialty Definition: cohere

DomainDefinition
Noah Webster1: [Verb] To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass, or as two substances that attract each other. Thus, particles of clay cohere; polished surfaces of bodies cohere..
 2: [Verb] To be well connected; to follow regularly in the natural order; to be suited in connection; as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Wiktionary1: [Verb] To be consistent as part of a group. Members of the party would cohere in the message they were sending. (references)
 2: [Verb] To stick together physically, by adhesion or figuratively by common purpose. Separate molecules will cohere because of electromagnetic force. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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