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Concordance vs Compendium - What's the difference?

concordance | compendium |

As nouns the difference between concordance and compendium

is that concordance is agreement; accordance; consonance while compendium is a short, complete summary; an abstract.

concordance

English

(wikipedia concordance)

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • agreement; accordance; consonance
  • * (rfdate)
    • Contrasts, and yet concordances .
  • (grammar, obsolete) concord; agreement.
  • 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.
  • * c. 1857 , (Thomas Macaulay), "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica ,
    • His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.
  • (computational linguistics) a list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.

    • compendium

    English

    (wikipedia compendium)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A short, complete summary; an abstract.
  • A list or collection of various items.
  • * 2008 , Caroline Murphy, Murder of a Medici Princess (page 157)
    • It was this last variety which formed the backbone of the first published Italian compendium of games, Innocenzo Ringhieri's One Hundred Games of Liberality and Ingenuity of 1551, dedicated to Cathérine de' Medici.
  • # (label) A collected body of information on the standards of strength, purity, and quality of drugs.

    • Derived terms

    * compendial

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