Consonance vs Congruence - What's the difference?
consonance | congruence |
(prosody) The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels as in assonance.
(chiefly, music) harmony; agreement; lack of discordance
* Tyndall
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 consonance and congruence
is that consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels as in assonance while congruence is the quality of agreeing or corresponding; being suitable and appropriate.consonance
English
Noun
(en noun)- The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance .
Antonyms
* dissonance * discordanceReferences
*Lakefield College School Key Literary Terms