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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cogent \Co"gent\, adjective [L. cogens, p. pr. of cogere to drive together, to force; co- + agere to drive. See {Agent}, adjective, and cf. {Coact} to force, {Coagulate}, p. a.]
1. Compelling, in a physical sense; powerful. [Obs.]
The cogent force of nature. --Prior.
2. Having the power to compel conviction or move the will; constraining; conclusive; forcible; powerful; not easily reasisted.
No better nor more cogent reason. --Dr. H. More.
Proofs of the most cogent description. --Tyndall.
The tongue whose strains were cogent as commands, Revered at home, and felt in foreign lands. --Cowper.
Syn: Forcible; powerful; potent; urgent; strong; persuasive; convincing; conclusive; influential.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cogent
adjective
1: having the power to influence or convince; "a cogent analysis of the problem"; "potent arguments" [syn: {potent}, {powerful}]
2: powerfully persuasive; "a cogent argument"; "a telling presentation"; "a weighty argument" [syn: {telling}, {weighty}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
127 Moby Thesaurus words for "cogent": acute, admissible, advantageous, apperceptive, appercipient, argute, armipotent, astute, auspicious, authoritative, beneficial, benevolent, binding, bon, bonny, braw, bueno, capital, commendable, compelling, consequential, consistent, constraining, convincing, credible, discerning, dynamic, effective, elegant, energetic, estimable, excellent, expedient, fair, famous, farseeing, farsighted, favorable, fine, forceful, forcible, foreseeing, foresighted, forethoughted, forethoughtful, good, goodly, grand, healthy, helpful, high-potency, high-powered, high-pressure, high-tension, in force, in power, incisive, inducing, influential, irresistible, just, justifiable, justified, kind, laudable, lawful, legal, legitimate, logical, longheaded, longsighted, meaningful, mighty, mighty in battle, momentous, nice, noble, operative, penetrating, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, perspicuous, persuasive, piercing, plausible, pleasant, potent, powerful, prepotent, profitable, provident, puissant, rational, reasonable, regal, royal, ruling, sagacious, sane, satisfactory, satisfying, self-consistent, sensible, significant, skillful, solid, sound, splendid, striking, strong, substantial, sufficient, telling, trenchant, understanding, useful, valid, very good, vigorous, virtuous, vital, weighty, well-argued, well-founded, well-grounded, wholesome
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
COGENT COmpiler and GENeralized Translator. A {compiler} writing language with pattern-directed string and list processing features, for {CDC 3600} and {CDC} 3800. A program consists of {production}s defining a {context-free} language, plus analysis and synthesis function generators. ["COGENT Programming Manual", J.C. Reynolds, ANL-7022, Argonne, Mar 1965]. [Sammet 1969, p.638]. ["An Introduction to the COGENT System", J.C. Reynolds, Proc ACM 20th Natl Conf, 1965]. (1994-12-23)
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