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Cohabitation is to live together as husband and wife, especially when not legally married.
Cohen's d refers to a standard measure of effect size computed by dividing the sample mean difference by the sample standard deviation.
Cohen's kappa refers to a calculation that corrects for chance agreement when inter-rater reliability is measured.
Coherence is a term used to describe the degree of correlation between the direction of moving objects. In displays containing many moving dots, zero percent coherence means all of the dots are moving independently; 100 percent coherence means all of the dots are moving in the same direction.
Cohesion is the property of a story that pertains to how the sentences of the story are linked together. In a Cohesive story, linguistic devices, for example, pronominal reference, link sentences to each other.
Cohesiveness refers to a "we feeling "; the extent to which members of a group are bound together, such as by attraction for one another.
Cohort refers to a group of individuals sharing certain significant social characteristics in common, such as sex, time, and place of birth.
Cohort analysis refers to a social scientific technique which studies a population that shares common characteristics, over time.