What's the difference between incoherent and inconsistent?

Incoherent


Definition:

  • (a.) Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of material substances.
  • (a.) Wanting coherence or agreement; incongruous; inconsistent; having no dependence of one part on another; logically disconnected.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Residents had called police after spotting a man wandering around the park and yelling incoherently.
  • (2) He implied that if Salmond lost the referendum, that would then expose different questions about the organisation and survival of the UK, where power has been devolved in, he said, an incoherent way.
  • (3) If the square arrays are superimposed spatially one sees random incoherent motion.
  • (4) Incoherent image formation in human eyes that have scattering eye media is investigated as a function of the particle size and the optical density of the scattering medium and for test targets that differ in form and size.
  • (5) Cho responded with a long, angry and incoherent email.
  • (6) We then aligned the edges again to produce incoherent motion and superimposed a sine-wave grating on the pattern.
  • (7) These results may be extended for imaging incoherent gamma-ray sources.
  • (8) Advantages of laser light compared to incoherent sources with passive filters are discussed.
  • (9) Amid the incoherent responses that make up a bewildering official narrative, the idea that the militants are funded by the government is gaining currency.
  • (10) In international affairs he has found the only posture more dangerous than belligerence – incoherence.
  • (11) His statements to the police were rambling and often incoherent.
  • (12) But there is a problem here: Mr Osborne's policies are incoherent.
  • (13) Now it’s time for clarity on the skyline.” Looming 160m above Fenchurch Street, towering over several conservation areas and butting into the background of most views of London, the Walkie-Talkie is perhaps the most egregious example of such incoherence.
  • (14) Numerous clinicians criticise the insufficiency and imprecision, and the incoherency of the analyses of biological calculations by the usual clinical methods and thus frequently avoid prescribing such an examination.
  • (15) A very inebriated Emin mumbled incoherently that "no real people" would be watching and that she wanted to go be with her mum and friends.
  • (16) These include the intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) model, the intravoxel coherent motion (IVCM) model, and various tracer models.
  • (17) However, in such a study the duration of consumption exercise an important influence because, in this regard, different personality profiles of the two drug-using groups come into play, the users of cannabis presenting a more incoherent picture.
  • (18) When non-identical binaural noise signals suddenly become coherent in the two ears, or coherent noise suddenly becomes incoherent, long latency binaurally evoked potentials (BINEP) are elicited which consist of P70, N130 and P220 components.
  • (19) The poem touches a chord, because it doesn't deal with the often incoherent motivations of those who smashed up Tottenham and elsewhere, but the feelings of the rest of us: shocked, unsettled and confused.
  • (20) To listen to Gordon Brown this morning was to hear a babble of incoherent assertions, delivered very fast and with striking vigour and confidence, which in no way amount to an intellectual case for power.

Inconsistent


Definition:

  • (a.) Not consistent; showing inconsistency; irreconcilable; discordant; at variance, esp. as regards character, sentiment, or action; incompatible; incongruous; contradictory.
  • (a.) Not exhibiting uniformity of sentiment, steadiness to principle, etc.; unequal; fickle; changeable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These data are inconsistent with an involvement of A-current reduction in LTP.
  • (2) Results were inconsistent with both the feature detector fatigue and response bias hypothesis.
  • (3) The lack of TBM prior to germinal center development and their absence in aged mice are inconsistent with the concept that TBM are required for the induction of the germinal center reaction.
  • (4) Moreover, it was more apparent in less differentiated tumors in which the granular pattern was often absent or inconsistent.
  • (5) Many governments try to protect their tax base through national blacklists based on criteria that are often unclear and inconsistently applied.
  • (6) Richard now is presented, albeit somewhat inconsistently, as evil in response to social ostracism because of his ugly deformities.
  • (7) It was concluded that 1) late ejection was quantitatively important to LV pumping, 2) behavior during late ejection was inconsistent with E(t)-R, and 3) ad hoc modification of E(t)-R models was not likely to yield LV pumping models that could satisfactorily reproduce instantaneous P(t) and Q(t) behavior over the entire ejection period.
  • (8) In these conditions the changes of the phrenic activity were weak and inconsistent.
  • (9) The only inconsistency in the mariner gene phylogeny is in the placement of the Zaprionus mariner sequence, which clusters with mariner from Drosophila teissieri and Drosophila yakuba in the melanogaster species subgroup.
  • (10) Meningococcal antisera raised against LPS from MGC A, B, and C also provided good protection against endotoxemia from the homologous capsular groups, but it was inconsistent against the heterologous serogroups.
  • (11) Twenty-three percent employed no birth control and 27 percent used diaphragms, the majority either inconsistently or incorrectly.
  • (12) Physicians are urged to reject involvement in rationing as inconsistent with their role as patient advocates and to support technology assessment, fee revisions, and more stringent self regulation as ways to discourage malpractice suits.
  • (13) The multiple reasons for an inconsistency of the epidemiological data are discussed.
  • (14) A 22 year old female-to-male half-Aboriginal transsexual had been exposed to gross neglect and violence, separation and inconsistent cultural supports during childhood.
  • (15) An algorithm is implemented to determine the form and phase shift for inconsistent type II quadrupoles for any space group having glide or screw-axis translations which are not a consequence of lattice centering.
  • (16) Defence lawyers contended that Saiful's testimony about the alleged sodomy, at a Kuala Lumpur condominium in 2008, was riddled with inconsistencies and the DNA evidence mishandled by investigators.
  • (17) In other words, absolute levels of these brain substances were inconsistent with respect to obesity across experiments.
  • (18) TGF-beta 1 regulated those differentiation markers of osteoblast phenotypes, although the effects were inconsistent depending on serum concentrations.
  • (19) These results are inconsistent with predictions of wavelength dependence inherent in recent theories of ocular scatter.
  • (20) The terminology of the pericardial sinuses and recesses has been inconsistent, and the authors propose a nomenclature for standardizing the names of the recesses of the serous pericardium.