congruent
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congruent
- /ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹu.ənt/ UK
- /ˈkɑŋ.ɡɹu.ənt/ Atlantic Canada, US
- /kənˈɡɹu.ənt/ Atlantic Canada, US
- /ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹu.ənt/ Canada
- /ˈkɔŋ.ɡɹʉ.ənt/ Australia
- /ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹʉ.ənt/ New Zealand
- [ˈkɔ̟ŋ.ɡɹʉ.ənt] New Zealand
Where it comes from
From Middle English congruent, from Latin congruēns, present active participle of congruō (“meet together, agree”).
adjective more congruent · most congruent
- Corresponding in character; congruous. In the course of this work it was borne in on me, increasingly, that the notion of I-schemes, schemes of selving, as the basic structures of our dynamic selves is congruent with developing directions of inquiry both within psychoanalysis and outside it.
- Harmonious.
- Having a difference divisible by a modulus.
- Coinciding exactly when superimposed.
- Satisfying a congruence relation.
