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rest area (medicine) and coherence (iou)


rest area (medicine)


rest area


The portion of a tooth structure or of a restoration in a tooth that is prepared to receive the positive seating of the metallic occlusal, incisal, lingual, or cingulum rest of a removable prosthesis.

Synonym: rest seat.


coherence (iou)



coherence noun. M16.
[Latin cohaerentia, formed as COHERENT: see -ENCE.]
The action or fact of sticking together (lit. & fig.); cohesion, union. M16.
Logical or clear interconnection or relation; consistency; congruity of substance, tenor, or General effect. L16.
b. Coincidence, agreement. L16-L17.
Context; immediately surrounding discourse. L16-M18.
Physics. The property (of waveforms) of being coherent. E20.
Comb.: coherence theory Philosophy either of two theories of truth positing (a) that coherence is the definition or criterion of truth, or (b) that the truth of a proposition consists in the coherence of that proposition with the set of all Other true propositions.
coherency noun the quality of being coherent E17.