Congruence

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Agreement, harmony, conformity, or correspondence.
  • noun. An instance of this.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The state of being congruent.
  • noun. A statement that two quantities are congruent.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In geometry, identity in shape and size. Its symbol is ≡.
  • noun. In line geometry, a set of ∞ lines, such that any two given conditions determine a definite finite number of lines of the set.
  • noun. Suitableness or appropriateness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency. Also congruency.
  • noun. Tn mathematics, a relation between three numbers such that the difference between two of them, which are said to be congruent, is divisible by the third, which is called the modulus.
  • noun. In grammar, concord; agreement.
  • noun. Same as congruency, 2.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The quality of agreeing or corresponding; being suitable and appropriate.
  • noun. a relation between two numbers indicating they give the same remainder when divided by some given number
  • noun. being isometric — roughly, the same size and shape
  • noun. more generally: any equivalence relation defined on an algebraic structure which is preserved by operations defined by the structure
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate