Coherence vs Congruence - What's the difference?
coherence | congruence |
Quality of cohering; of being coherent; internal consistency.
a logical arrangement of parts
(physics, of waves) the property of having the same wavelength and phase.
(linguistics) Semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.
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
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
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* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- ''His arguments lacked coherence .