incoherent

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(ĭn'kō-hîr'ənt) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Lacking cohesion, connection, or harmony; not coherent: incoherent fragments of a story.
  2. Unable to think or express one's thoughts in a clear or orderly manner: incoherent with grief.
incoherently in'co·her'ent·ly adv.
incoherentness in'co·her'ent·ness n.

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Definition: unintelligible
Antonyms: coherent, intelligible, lucid, understandable

In probability theory a set of probability assignments is incoherent if it lays their possessor open to a Dutch book; equivalently, it is incoherent if it disobeys the classical axioms of probability theory. See representation theorem.

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IN BRIEF: Lacking cohesion or clarity.

pronunciation What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint? — Seneca (4 BC-65 AD), Spanish-born Roman (Stoic) philosopher, statesman.

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - usammenhængende

Nederlands (Dutch)
onsamenhangend, incoherent

Français (French)
adj. - incohérent

Deutsch (German)
adj. - inkohärent, zusammenhanglos

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - ασυνάρτητος, στερούμενος ειρμού

Italiano (Italian)
incoerente

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - incoerente

Русский (Russian)
бессвязный, неподходящий

Español (Spanish)
adj. - incoherente, inconexo

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - osammanhängande, lös, inkonsekvent

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
不连贯的, 语无伦次的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 不連貫的, 語無倫次的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 앞뒤가 맞지 않는, 조리가 닿지 않는, 점착력이 없는

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 一貫しない, 矛盾した, わけのわからない, 支離滅裂な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) مفكك, غير مترابط‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮חסר-היגיון, לא-מתאים, חסר-עקביות, אינו יכול לדבר בצורה מובנת, חסר רציפות וקשר או מבולבל (דיבור)‬


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