Congruent vs Concomitant - What's the difference?
congruent | concomitant |
Corresponding in character.
harmonious
(mathematics) Having a difference divisible by a modulus.
(mathematics) Coinciding exactly when superimposed.
(algebra) Satisfying a relation.
Accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent.
* (John Locke)
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 41:
Something happening or existing at the same time.
* 1970 , , Bantam Books , pg.93:
* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 301:
An invariant homogeneous polynomial in the coefficients of a form, a covariant variable, and a contravariant variable.
As adjectives the difference between congruent and concomitant
is that congruent is corresponding in character while concomitant is accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent.As a noun concomitant is
something happening or existing at the same time.congruent
English
Adjective
(wikipedia congruent) (en adjective)Usage notes
* (en-usage-equal)Synonyms
* congruousDerived terms
* congruent number, congruent triangleconcomitant
English
Adjective
(-)- It has pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure.
- The new technology on which super-industrialism is based, much of it blue-printed in American research laboratories, brings with it an inevitable acceleration of change in society and a concomitant speed-up of the pace of individual life as well.
Synonyms
* (following as a consequence) accompanying, adjoining, attendant, incidentalNoun
(en noun)- The declining commitment to place is thus related not to mobility per se, but to a concomitant of mobility- the shorter duration of place relationships.
- It is also instructive to consider the relation of these dreams to anxiety dreams. In the dreams we have been discussing, a repressed wish has found a means of evading censorship—and the distortion which censorship involves. The invariable concomitant is that painful feelings are experienced in the dream.