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congruence

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality of agreeing or corresponding; being suitable and appropriate. 2 (context mathematics number theory English) a relation between two numbers indicating they give the same remainder when divided by some given number 3 (context mathematics ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In geometry , two figures or objects are congruent if they have the same shape and size, or if one has the same shape and size as the mirror image of the other. More formally, two sets of points are called congruent if, and only if, one can be transformed ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Latin congruentia "agreement, harmony, congruity," from congruentem (nominative congruens ), present participle of congruere "to come together" (see congruent ). Related: Congruency .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Congruence \Con"gru*ence\, n. [L. congruentia: cf. OF. cornguence.] Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency. --Holland.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate [syn: congruity , congruousness ] [ant: incongruity , incongruity ]

Usage examples of congruence.

Ninety-eight percent genetic congruence, only five million years since the last common ancestor, which… Yes.

The man smiled back and fed them into the reader, waiting a few seconds while the machine read the data, scanned the two Belters for congruence, and consulted the central files.

If we lose congruence with time also, our chances of ever getting back would appear to be remarkably slight.

He estimates we can make the return trip without losing congruence as long as we don’t tie our time constant to a fixed point of reference.

Again, dismissing time's changes, I find considerable congruence with reality.

Another had examined the rhythmic structure of Julius Caesar's Latin and discovered the most striking congruences with the results of well-known studies of the intervals in Byzantine hymns.

It is this deeper likeness which makes things, that are either the inevitabilities of human poetry or the accidental congruences of all tales, ring alike.

Though actual congruences (of form + sense) occur in unrelated real languages, and it is impossible in constructing imaginary languages from a limited number of component sounds to avoid such resemblances (if one tries to – 1 do not), it remains remarkable that nasc is the word for 'ring' in Gaelic (Irish: in Scottish usually written nasg).

He knew better than to be fooled by the apparent congruences, but it helped to remind himself of the obvious differences.

To be sure, there are natural congruences and proprieties which are generally observed.

However this may be, there are congruences and dispositions which seem appropriate in given contexts.

Every weapon of cryptanalytic science—which in the stratospheric realm of this solution drew heavily upon mathematics, using group theory, congruences, Poisson distributions—was thrown into the fray.

Environmental regularities are the result of a conjoint history, a congruence that unfolds from a long history of codetermination" (Embodied mind, p.