A set of basic functions used as building blocks for more complicated functions. The list of parent functions varies. A typical set of functions is listed below.
Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Recency(noun) the state or quality of being recent; newness; new state; late origin; lateness in time; freshness; as, the recency of a transaction, of a wound, etc.
Coherence refers to a certain characteristic or aspect of writing. Coherence in writing means that all the ideas in a paragraph flow smoothly from one sentence to the next sentence. With coherence, the reader has an easy time understanding the ideas that you wish to express. Consider the paragraph that we studied in Lesson #1: