coherent whole

collocation in English

meaningsofcoherentandwhole

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coherent
adjective
uk
/kəʊˈhɪə.rənt/
us
/koʊˈhɪr.ənt/
If an argument, set of ideas, or a plan is coherent, it is clear and carefully considered, and each part of it connects or follows in a natural or ...
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whole
noun[C usually singular]
uk
/həʊl/
us
/hoʊl/
a ...
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(Definition ofcoherentandwholefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcoherent whole

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This is meaning as acoherentwhole.
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Unfortunately, the three sources are not ingredients for acoherentwhole.
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The thirteen articles comprising the second volume form a lesscoherentwhole.
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One can divide the book into two parts, which together make acoherentwhole.
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By and large, however, the book's tight structure makes for a comprehensive and verycoherentwhole.
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Significantly these articles do come together to make acoherentwhole.
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Such cohesive ties alone do not, however, make the exchange acoherentwhole.
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The emergence of the architectural concept is precisely what allows rounding up all these aspects in a single,coherentwhole.
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The problem is that this book does not bring the various levels of explanation into acoherentwhole.
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The book is rich in material and holds together well under his editorship, each section acoherentwhole.
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These problems prevent combining the more detailed (but narrow-focus) studies already available into acoherentwhole.
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These chapters, 3-8, form acoherentwholeand raise issues that seem to merit fuller discussion here.
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This claim is supported by a number of stylistic disparities within the painting that resist unification into acoherentwhole.
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And both dome and phantasmagoria gather and order sensory data to suggest acoherentwholerather than a buzzing confusion.
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Impairments in context memory might result in each part being stored as an individual representation, rather than acoherentwhole.
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What is particularly impressive about this volume is the way that the chapters add up to acoherentwhole.
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The reason is that it is impossible to speak of the public sector as a unified orcoherentwhole.
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The first is that the collection as it has conventionally been understood is indeed in principle acoherentwhole.
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Narratives require children not only to produce multiple sentences but to knit them together into acoherentwhole.
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Within limits, this feedback loop (a resonance) is self-perpetuating, binding the respective activation patterns into acoherentwhole.
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The two proposals form acoherentwhole.
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The process is onecoherentwholethat cannot be divided.
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He meant that they did not form acoherentwhole.
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Our recommendations were put forward as acoherentwhole.
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One must look at this problem as acoherentwhole.
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