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Continuity vs Congruence - What's the difference?

continuity | congruence |

As nouns the difference between continuity and congruence

is that continuity is lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time while congruence is the quality of agreeing or corresponding; being suitable and appropriate.

continuity

English

Noun

  • Lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time.
  • Considerable continuity of attention is needed to read German philosophy.
  • (uncountable, mathematics) A characteristic property of a continuous function.
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  • A narrative device in episodic fiction where previous and/or future events in a story series are accounted for in present stories.
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    Antonyms

    * discontinuity

    Derived terms

    * discontinuity * sequential continuity * uniform continuity

    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