cogent

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  1. adjective Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning; convincing: a cogent argument. See Synonyms at valid.

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  • Particularly cogent are the following Aslund points IMO: —  A Second Hand Conjecture » Around the Web
  • Rather it remains the cogent issue of selecting the right tools to get the job done. —  THE INTELLIGENT SINGAPOREAN
  • (For a cogent explanation of these abilities in WiMax, download and read the first white paper on this page, ISPCON 2004 keynote, by Nigel Ballard of Matrix Networks and Personal Telco in Portland.) —  Wi-Fi Networking News
  • It's a cogent, how-to guide to installing and using stumbling and detection software. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
  • Exactly how to use online distribution to pay for news bureaus filled with the reporters needed to ferret out news and present it in a cogent, contextualized manner, Schmidt didn't say. ill-fated TimesSelect online-subscription experiment, charging readers to read web articles isn't the answer. —  The Register
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  1. Latin cōgēns, cōgent-, present participle of cōgere, to force : co-, co- + agere, to drive; see ag- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French cogent, from Latin cogen(t-)s, present participle of cogere, collect, compress, compel, contr. of *co-igere, for *co-agere, from co-, together, + age-re, drive: see co- and act, n.
 

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/ˈkoʊdʒənt/
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