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Coherence vs Congruence - What's the difference?

coherence | congruence |

As nouns the difference between coherence and congruence

is that coherence is quality of cohering; of being coherent; internal consistency while congruence is the quality of agreeing or corresponding; being suitable and appropriate.

coherence

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Quality of cohering; of being coherent; internal consistency.
  • a logical arrangement of parts
  • ''His arguments lacked coherence .
  • (physics, of waves) the property of having the same wavelength and phase.
  • (linguistics) Semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.
  • Antonyms

    * incoherence

    References

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    congruence

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The quality of agreeing or corresponding; being suitable and appropriate.
  • (mathematics, number theory) a relation between two numbers indicating they give the same remainder when divided by some given number
  • (mathematics, geometry) being isometric — roughly, the same size and shape
  • (algebra) more generally: any (l) defined on an (l) which is preserved by defined by the structure
  • See also

    * residue

    Synonyms

    * congruency, congruity