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congruence

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con=gru=ence

CIDE DICTIONARY

congruencen. [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.

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, unity

ROGET THESAURUS

congruence

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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