Consilience

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

  Consilience \Con*sil"i*ence\, n. [con- + salire to leap.]
     Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The consilience of inductions takes place when one
           class of facts coincides with an induction obtained


           from another different class.            --Whewell.
     [1913 Webster] Consimilitude