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Concordance \Con*cord"ance\, n. [F., fr. LL. concordantia.]
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Agreement; accordance.
Contrasts, and yet concordances.
--Carlyle. (Gram.) Concord; agreement. [Obs.]
--Aschlam.-
An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place.
His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.
--Macaulay. A topical index or orderly analysis of the contents of a book.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "alphabetical arrangement of all the words in a book" (especially the Bible), from Old French concordance (12c.) "agreement, harmony," from Late Latin concordantia, from concordantem (nominative concordans; see concord). Originally a citation of parallel passages. Literal meaning "fact of agreeing" attested in English from mid-15c.
Wiktionary
n. 1 agreement; accordance; consonance 2 (context grammar obsolete English) concord; agreement. 3 An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place. 4 (context computational linguistics English) a list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Concordance can mean:
- Agreement (linguistics), a form of cross-reference between different parts of a sentence or phrase
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Concordance (publishing), a list of words used in a body of work, with their immediate contexts
- Bible concordance, a verbal index to the Bible.
- Concordance (genetics), the presence of the same trait in both members of a pair of twins (or set of individuals)
- Concordance (medicine), involvement of patients in decision-making to improve patient compliance with medical advice
- Concordance of evidence, the principle that multiple independent sources of evidence in concordance with each other mutually support a case and lead to much stronger conclusions than the sources could achieve on their own
- Concordance system, in Swiss politics, the presence of all major parties in the Federal Council
- Concordance database, a database tailored to legal applications and distributed by LexisNexis
- Inter-rater reliability, in statistics, the degree to which multiple measurements of the same thing are similar
- Lambda-CDM model of big-bang cosmology
- Link concordance, a relation between mathematical links in knot theory
- Concordance correlation coefficient, in statistics, a measurement of the agreement between two variables
- Concordance (Concordancia), the conservative alliance in power in Argentina between 1931 and 1943.
- Concordance, the theatre production company of Neil McPherson (artistic director)
- Concordance et Indices de la Tradıtıon Musulmane Hadith 1916 Juynboll, Wensinck, Horovitz started.
Concordance, as used in genetics, usually means the presence of the same trait in both members of a pair of twins. However, the strict definition is the probability that a pair of individuals will both have a certain characteristic, given that one of the pair has the characteristic. For example, twins are concordant when both have or both lack a given trait. The ideal example of concordance is that of identical twins.
A concordance is an alphabetical list of the principal words used in a book or body of work, listing every instance of each word with its immediate context. Only works of special importance have had concordances prepared for them, such as the Vedas, Bible, Qur'an or the works of Shakespeare or classical Latin and Greek authors, because of the time, difficulty, and expense involved in creating a concordance in the pre- computer era.
A concordance is more than an index; additional material make producing them a labor-intensive process, even when assisted by computers, such as commentary, definitions, and topical cross-indexing.
In the precomputing era, search technology was unavailable, and a concordance offered readers of long works such as the Bible something comparable to search results for every word that they would have been likely to search for. Today, the ability to combine the result of queries concerning multiple terms (such as searching for words near other words) has reduced interest in concordance publishing. In addition, mathematical techniques such as Latent Semantic Indexing have been proposed as a means of automatically identifying linguistic information based on word context.
A bilingual concordance is a concordance based on aligned parallel text.
A topical concordance is a list of subjects that a book covers (usually The Bible), with the immediate context of the coverage of those subjects. Unlike a traditional concordance, the indexed word does not have to appear in the verse. The most well known topical concordance is Nave's Topical Bible.
The first Bible concordance was compiled for the Vulgate Bible by Hugh of St Cher (d.1262), who employed 500 monks to assist him. In 1448, Rabbi Mordecai Nathan completed a concordance to the Hebrew Bible. It took him ten years. A concordance to the Greek New Testament was published in 1599 by Henry Stephens, and the Septuagint was done a couple of years later by Conrad Kircher in 1602. The first concordance to the English bible was published in 1550 by Mr Marbeck. According to Cruden, it did not employ the verse numbers devised by Robert Stephens in 1545, but "the pretty large concordance" of Mr Cotton did. Then followed Cruden's Concordance and Strong's Concordance.
The Concordance ( Spanish: Concordancia) was an electoral political alliance of the right-wing and traditionalist political parties in Bolivia.
The Concordance was established in March 1939, for the 1940 presidential and congressional elections, by the Liberal Party, PL; Genuine Republican Party, PRG; Republican Socialist Party, PRS.
Concordance presented as its presidential candidate General Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo, the nearest approximation to a military hero produced by the Bolivian side in the Chaco War.
Usage examples of "concordance".
In one night he endorsed more than a thousand petitions addressed to the Khalif with his decisions, all of which were in perfect concordance with the law.
The stories told in the biblical book of Revelation and the Toltecan Codex were in concordance.
And as the ends and ultimates of all things accord in some mean and measure with their inceptions and originals, that same multiplicit concordance which leads forth growth from birth accomplishing by a retrogressive metamorphosis that minishing and ablation towards the final which is agreeable unto nature so is it with our subsolar being.
Like most marriages, Avril and the late James Incandenza's was an evolved product of concordance and compromise, and the scholastic curriculum at E.
You don't know what concordance of factors and variables yields that calibrated can't-miss feeling, and you don't want to soil the magic by trying to figure it out, but you don't want to change your grip, your stick, your side of the court, your angle of incidence to the sun.
Some nights their little circle was enlarged by Edward Sheldon, who began compiling a concordance of Dante's poems and minor writings, on his way, he hoped, to studying for a year or two in Italy.
Daurannon and Rosamund were both too occupied with the shouted recapitulation of the Concordances of Stellith to stop him as he tiptoed down the stairs and paused for a moment in the shadows of the lower hall.
Daurannon and Rosamund were both too occupied with the shouted recapitulation of the Concordances of Stellith to stop him as he tiptoed down the stairs and paused for a moment in the shadows of the lower hall.
Baen readers use the electronic editions of their favorite series to build concordances of characters, places and events.
He read the Catholic Encyclopedia and marveled at the various concordances he had located.
Perhaps there was a glitch and Loretta had mistakenly printed everything, including program files, Bibles and concordances, dictionaries, and the like.
It was of course a foul stroke to employ a Concordance, and even the use of a reference Bible was not considered quite playing the game.