Coherence (units of measurement)

A coherent derived unit is defined as a derived unit that, its also called compound measure, for a given system of quantities and for a chosen set of base units, is a product of powers of base units with no other proportionality factor than one. The concept of coherence was developed in the mid-nineteenth century by, amongst others, Kelvin and James Clerk Maxwell and promoted by the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The concept was initially applied to the centimetre–gram–second (CGS) and the foot–pound–second systems (FPS) of units in 1873 and 1875 respectively. The International System of Units (1960) was designed around the system of coherence.