Coupling and cohesion

Question

I\'m trying to boil down the concepts of coupling and cohesion to a concise definition. Can someone give me a short and understandable explanation (shorter than the definiti

Answer 1

"Coupling is a measure of interdependencies between modules, which should be minimized" "cohesion, a quality to be maximized, focuses on the relationships between the activities performed by each module."

quoted from this paper: http://steve.vinoski.net/pdf/IEEE-Old_Measures_for_New_Services.pdf