incoherent
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- adjective
- /ˌɪnkoʊˈhɪrənt/
- Specialized
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incoherente
- Outside the academic team's multimillion-dollar practice facility, she could hear the incoherent voices of the football players as they again tried to drum up support for an after-school team.
- incoherent light
- incoherent beam
- incoherent feedforward
And so you have an incoherent light source.
- And so you have an incoherent light source.
Examples
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Examples of incoherent light sources, like some LEDs, emit waves that lack definite phase connections.
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The first experiment employed a quasi-monochromatic light beam that was partially spatially incoherent.
Academic text (1998) -
And so you have an incoherent light source.
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Because you start to be able to control the flow of energy and take it from an incoherent state, which has little power.
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The light is incoherent, the phases, therefore the colours have no phase relationship.
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What we hear as incoherent noise may actually be a musical masterpiece.
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Such applications could use self-trapped beams from incoherent sources such as light-emitting diodes.
Academic text (1998) -
The dashed curve indicates the detected flux for high-frequency, incoherent waves—that is, phonons.
Academic text (1995) -
Another experiment demonstrated self-trapping of dark incoherent "beams"—that is, one- or two-dimensional voids nested in a spatially incoherent beam.
Academic text (1998) -
The study of incoherent waves revealed that they do not have a stable phase relationship.
Synonyms
Not logically connected or with waves that do not match each other
Not related and not changing together
Antonyms
How Coherent
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Incoherent comes from the parts in- 'not' and cohere 'to stick together', so in physics it means waves that do not 'stick together' or line up, and therefore do not make a clear combined pattern.