coherent
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- adjective
- /koʊˈhɪrənt/
- Specialized
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coherente
- The scientist demonstrated how coherent waves can create an interference pattern.
- coherent wave
- coherent light
- coherent sources
What it does is gives the original coherent state some momentum.
- What it does is gives the original coherent state some momentum.
- Clearly it is a coherent signal.
- We like, you know, we go through all these things and we land the, the thing that kept on popping up towards the end was diffracted light, diffracted light, coherent light.
- So literally our nervous system gets coherent to the waves, right?
- There's music in the audio book that is the the heart coherent, I mean love coherent frequencies.
- We're talking hundreds and hundreds of standard deviations in gamma, coherent gamma, perfect coherent gamma.
Examples
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The result is an essentially arbitrary-wavelength source of spatially coherent laser light.
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Clearly it is a coherent signal.
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So this is coherent light.
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They were in phase when the coherent light struck these.
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And as I said, this is the narrow beam of coherent light of very great intensity.
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The laser is emitting coherent light, right?
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The field of multidimensional coherent spectroscopy is still evolving, and new developments are occurring frequently.
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Interferometry can be routinely performed with coherent radiation, which may be sound, electrons, x-rays, neutrons, or atoms.
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Laser light is coherent because the waves maintain a consistent phase relationship.
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For better results, we need to use coherent light sources in the experiment.
Synonyms
Happening at the same time
Antonyms
How Coherent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Coherent comes from the Latin root haerēre 'to stick' with co- 'together', a bit like adhere. In physics a coherent wave keeps the same timing or 'sticks' in step with another wave, which is why they make clear patterns when they meet.