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Congruence vs Consistence - What's the difference?

congruence | consistence |

As nouns the difference between congruence and consistence

is that congruence is the quality of agreeing or corresponding; being suitable and appropriate while consistence is (archaic) the physical quality which is given by the degree of firmness, solidity, density, and viscosity; consistency.

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

    consistence

    English

    Noun

  • (archaic) The physical quality which is given by the degree of firmness, solidity, density, and viscosity; consistency.
  • * Arbuthnot
  • Let the expressed juices be boiled into the consistence of a sirup.
  • The staying together, or remaining in close relation, of non-physical things.
  • Her performance has lacked consistence over the last year.
    This composer's musical work is of extraordinary consistence .
  • (obsolete) Standing still; quiescence; state of rest.
  • (obsolete) The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence .
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • We are as water, weak, and of no consistence .
  • (obsolete) That which stands together as a united whole; a combination.
  • * Milton
  • The church of God, as meaning whole consistence of orders and members.