Congruence

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Congruence \Con"gru*ence\, n. [L. congruentia: cf. OF.
     cornguence.]
     Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency.
     --Holland.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  congruence
       n : the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate
           [syn: {congruity}, {congruousness}] [ant: {incongruity},
           {incongruity}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "congruence":
     accord, accordance, affinity, agreement, assent, chorus,
     coequality, coherence, coincidence, compatibility, concert,
     concord, concordance, conformance, conformation, conformity,
     congeniality, congruency, congruity, consistency, consonance,
     consort, cooperation, correspondence, equality, equivalence,
     harmony, homogeneity, homoousia, identity, indistinguishability,
     intersection, no difference, oneness, overlap, parallelism, peace,
     rapport, sameness, self-consistency, self-identity, selfhood,
     selfness, selfsameness, symmetry, sync, synchronism, synonymity,
     synonymousness, synonymy, tally, timing, uniformity, union, unison,
     unisonance, unity