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Cohesion (linguistics)

Cohesion in linguistics, systematized by Halliday and Hasan's Cohesion in English (1976), is the grammatical and lexical linkage within a text via reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction, and lexical cohesion, distinct from coherence, a text's overall meaningfulness.

Cohesive Capital Partners

Cohesive Capital Partners is a New York-based private equity firm founded in 2010 by John Barber, making direct co-investments alongside lead sponsors in buyout and growth-equity deals.

Cohors I Celtiberorum

Cohors I Celtiberorum, a Roman auxiliary cohort of Celtiberians from Hispania, attested in Britain AD 97–158 (Vindolanda, diplomas, Caersws tile stamps), possibly in Mauretania 109–117, linked to the Berlanga Cup.

Cohort (military unit)

Cohort (Latin cohors), the standard Roman infantry unit: ten cohorts of six 80-man centuries (about 480 men, first cohort double) formed a legion; also auxiliary infantry units and the origin of the Praetorian cohorts.

Coin

A coin is a piece of metal or alloy issued by a monetary authority and accepted as legal tender, one of two physical forms of state-issued money alongside banknotes.

Coin reform of 1654–1663

The coin reform of 1654–1663 (Денежная реформа 1654–1663 годов) was Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich's attempt to introduce copper coins at par with silver, ending in collapse and the Copper Riot of 1662.

Coinage Act of 1792

The Coinage Act of 1792, passed on April 2, established the United States Mint in Philadelphia and defined the dollar in silver, with gold coined at a 15 to 1 ratio.

Coinage Act of 1873

The Coinage Act of 1873 was a US federal law, passed February 12, 1873, that ended free coinage of silver and moved the country toward the gold standard.

Coinage of India

Coinage of India, also known as Coins of India, is the coinage of the Indian subcontinent, from punch-marked silver coins of the 7th-6th century BC to the modern rupee.

Coinage of Menander I

The coinage of Menander I (मिनांडर मुद्रा) is the money of the Indo-Greek king Menander I Soter, the largest and most varied coinage of any Indo-Greek king.

Coinage reform of 621

The coinage reform of 621 was Emperor Gaozu of Tang's abolition of the Sui five-zhu coin in favor of the Kaiyuan Tongbao (开元通宝), which began the tongbao naming system.

Coinage reform of Khusrau I

The coinage reform of Khusrau I (درهمِ خسرو) standardized the Sasanian silver drachm under King Khusrau I Anushirvan, who reigned from 531 to 579, forming part of his wider fiscal and military reforms.

Coinage standardization

Coinage standardization (统一货币) was the Qin dynasty policy, carried out under the First Emperor after 221 BC, that made the round square-holed banliang the empire's only coin.

Coinbase

Coinbase, also known as Coinbase Global, is an American cryptocurrency exchange and financial-services company founded in 2012 that went public on the Nasdaq in 2021 under the ticker COIN.

CoinDCX

CoinDCX is a Mumbai-headquartered Indian cryptocurrency exchange founded in April 2018 by Sumit Gupta and Neeraj Khandelwal, which became India's first crypto unicorn in August 2021 and was valued at $2.15 billion in 2022.

Coins of the Indian rupee

Coins of the Indian rupee, also known as Indian rupee coins, are the metal denominations of India's currency, issued under the Coinage Act, 2011 in denominations from ₹1 to ₹20.

Coins of the Philippine peso

The coins of the Philippine peso, also called Philippine peso coins, are seven denominations issued by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas since 2018, from 1 sentimo to 20 piso.

Coins of the pound sterling

Coins of the pound sterling, or UK coinage, are the United Kingdom's circulating metal coins, struck by the Royal Mint in denominations from 1p to £2.

Coins of the United States dollar

Coins of the United States dollar are the six circulating denominations authorized by federal statute, from the penny to the dollar coin; the Mint stopped making pennies in 2025.

CoinSwitch Kuber

CoinSwitch Kuber is a Bengaluru-based Indian cryptocurrency trading platform founded in 2017 by Ashish Singhal, Govind Soni, and Vimal Sagar, launched in India in June 2020.

Cointegration

Cointegration is a statistical property of time series in which individually non-stationary series have a stationary linear combination, introduced by Granger and formalized with Engle in 1987.

COINTELPRO

COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program) was the FBI's secret 1956–1971 program to disrupt and discredit domestic political groups, targeting the Communist Party, KKK, Socialist Workers Party, and Black Panthers, ending after the 1971 Media burglary and Church Committee investigation.

Coixtlahuaca

Coixtlahuaca was a Late Postclassic kingdom and major international market town in the Mixteca Alta of northern Oaxaca, Mexico, conquered by Motecuhzoma I and known for 13 native lienzos.

Coixtlahuaca Basin wars of the Mixtec and Chocho

The Coixtlahuaca Basin wars of the Mixtec and Chocho were pre-Hispanic conflicts in Oaxaca, Mexico, ending when Moctezuma I's Aztec forces conquered the valley between 1458 and 1462.

Coke R. Stevenson

Coke R. Stevenson (1888-1975), Texas governor 1941-1947, first to serve more than two terms, also House speaker and lieutenant governor; lost the disputed 1948 Senate primary to Lyndon Johnson by 87 votes.

Coker University

Coker University, formerly Coker College for Women, is a private liberal arts university in Hartsville, South Carolina, founded in 1908 by James Lide Coker; coeducational since 1969, university-named since 2019, NCAA Division II Cobras.

Cokie Roberts

Cokie Roberts (Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs, 1943–2019) was an American congressional correspondent for NPR and political commentator for ABC News, daughter of Hale and Lindy Boggs, author of Founding Mothers and other bestsellers on women in American history, and winner of three Emmy Awards.

Colby College

Colby College, founded 1813 in Waterville, Maine, is a private liberal arts college with 2,400 undergraduates, 8% admit rate, no-loan aid meeting full need, and a $500M science expansion.

Colby Watson

Colby Watson is an American politician and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in North Carolina's 8th congressional district in the 2026 election, after winning the March 2026 primary.

Cold calling

Cold calling is the practice of telephoning prospective customers who have had no prior contact with the caller or company, to sell something or book a meeting.