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congruence
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun congruence has 1 sense
- congruence(n = noun.attribute) congruity, congruousness - the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate; Array is a kind of harmoniousness, harmony
Derived forms adjective congruent2, adjective congruent1
CIDE DICTIONARY
congruence, n. [L. congruentia: cf. OF. cornguence.].
Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency. Holland. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
congruence, n. (also congruency)
1 agreement, consistency.
2 Geom. the state of being congruent.
1 agreement, consistency.
2 Geom. the state of being congruent.
Etymology
ME f. L congruentia (as congruent)
THESAURUS
congruence
accord, accordance, affinity, agreement, assent, chorus, coequality, coherence, coincidence, compatibility, concert, concord, concordance, conformance, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruency, congruity, consistency, consonance, consort, cooperation, correspondence, equality, equivalence, harmony, homogeneity, homoousia, identity, indistinguishability, intersection, no difference, oneness, overlap, parallelism, peace, rapport, sameness, self-consistency, self-identity, selfhood, selfness, selfsameness, symmetry, sync, synchronism, synonymity, synonymousness, synonymy, tally, timing, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, unityROGET THESAURUS
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Agreement
N agreement, accord, accordance, unison, harmony, concord, concordance, concert, understanding, mutual understanding, conformity, conformance, uniformity, consonance, consentaneousness, consistency, congruity, congruence, keeping, congeniality, correspondence, parallelism, apposition, union, fitness, aptness, relevancy, pertinence, pertinencey, sortance, case in point, aptitude, coaptation, propriety, applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility, cognation, adaption, adjustment, graduation, accommodation, reconciliation, reconcilement, assimilation, consent, concurrence, cooperation, right man in the right place, very thing, quite the thing, just the thing, agreeing, suiting, in accord, accordant, concordant, consonant, congruous, consentaneous, correspondent, congenial, coherent, becoming, harmonious reconcilable, conformable, in accordance with, in harmony with, in keeping with, in unison with at one with, of one mind, of a piece, consistent, compatible, proportionate, commensurate, on all fours, apt, apposite, pertinent, pat, to the point, to the purpose, happy, felicitous, germane, ad rem, in point, on point, directly on point, bearing upon, applicable, relevant, admissible, fit adapted, in loco, a propos, appropriate, seasonable, sortable, suitable, idoneous, deft, meet, at home, in one's proper element, a propos of, pertinently, rem acu tetigisti, if the shoe fits, wear it, the cap fits, auxilia humilia firma consensus facit, discers concordia.
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