Crossword clues for congruent
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Congruent \Con"gru*ent\, a. [L. congruens, p. pr. of congruere: cf. F. congruent.] Possessing congruity; suitable; agreeing; corresponding.
The congruent and harmonious fitting of parts in a
sentence.
--B. Jonson.
Congruent figures (Geom.), concurring figures.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "suitable, proper," from Latin congruentem (nominative congruens) "agreeing, fit, suitable," present participle of congruere, literally "to come together, agree, correspond with," from com- "with" (see com-) + a lost verb *gruere, *ruere "fall, rush," perhaps from PIE *ghrei- "to rub, grind" (see chrism). Geometry sense attested by 1706.
Wiktionary
a. 1 corresponding in character. 2 harmonious 3 (context mathematics English) Having a difference divisible by a modulus. 4 (context mathematics English) coinciding exactly when superimposed. 5 (context algebra English) Satisfying a (l/en: congruence) relation.
WordNet
adj. corresponding in character or kind [syn: congruous] [ant: incongruous]
coinciding when superimposed [ant: incongruent]
Usage examples of "congruent".
Joy Hall gates, which have the peculiar property of making two areas of identical size congruent in Space and Time, though they be extremely widely separated in all dimensions.
But in this instance there was a truth congruent to the anthropomorphic effect: the cosmic disruption caused by the materialization of Paradise on the earthly plane brought about the day of judgment, allowed hell to be hauled up from wherever it rested on seventy thousand volts or ropes.
For their part, the Futurists want to change the present through the future, to go into the future and bring back its completion, in the form of restored RNA cells, which is congruent with their belief that the past is the past and all that matters is that which is yet to come, that which still has the hope of existence.
Such a region is the result of an instability between the two congruent universes.
A trio of tiny lights snapped to life deep within the cord as the two congruent ends proceeded to fuse seamlessly together.
She carried herself with a remote professional air and the backs of her wrinkled hands were covered in a strange geometry of tattoos, fine parallel lines and spirals intertwining and congruent triangles and circles within circles.
Wig and Waistcoat, been not so much transported as translated, to a congruent Street somewhere in America.
Oniko much of the time, but he was too busy trying to prove to the satisfaction of his number-theory program that 53 was congruent to 1421 to the base 6 to pay much attention.
The world of the Second Sphere has always struck Matt as entirely congruent with the ideology of the Party, for all the continuing conservatism and capitalism of the elder species.
The display was set to show heat signals that were congruent with life-forms.
Her entries will be holographic or audio/video for a time, but the Gringg have all the parameters to create a congruent writtenlanguage program.
The gradients themselves threw our two vessels onto congruent courses: the navigational AIs both attempted with electronic desperation to find solutions that would not exceed the starships' moduli of rupture.