Concordance vs Congruence - What's the difference?
concordance | congruence |
agreement; accordance; consonance
* (rfdate)
(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 ,
(computational linguistics) a list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.
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 concordance and congruence
is that concordance is agreement; accordance; consonance while congruence is the quality of agreeing or corresponding; being suitable and appropriate.concordance
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(wikipedia concordance)Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- Contrasts, and yet concordances .
- His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.