Coherence is from Latincohaerere = stick together, to be connected with). See:
Coherence (physics). Coherence is an attribute of physical quantities that can be described in terms of waves when a well-defined wavefront can be defined, as in classical optics.
Coherence (linguistics). In linguistics, coherence is what makes a text semantically meaningful.
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