congruent

From Middle English congruent, from Latin congruēns, present active participle of congruō (“meet together, agree”).

• (UK, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹu.ənt/

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• (US, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑŋ.ɡɹu.ənt/, /kənˈɡɹu.ənt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔŋ.ɡɹʉ.ənt/
• Hyphenation: con‧gru‧ent

congruent (comparative more congruent, superlative most congruent)

1. Corresponding in character; congruous.
   • 2013, Irene Fast, Selving: A Relational Theory of Self Organization, →ISBN, page xii:

     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.

2. Harmonious.
4. (mathematics) Having a difference divisible by a modulus.
6. (mathematics) Coinciding exactly when superimposed.
7. (algebra) Satisfying a congruence relation.

• In mathematics, this adjective can be used in phrases like “A and B are congruent”, “A is congruent to B”, and, less commonly, “A is congruent with B”.

• congruous

• incongruous

Borrowed from Latin congruēns.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔŋ.ɣryˈɛnt/

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• Hyphenation: con‧gru‧ent
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

congruent (comparative congruenter, superlative congruentst)

1. congruent

   Synonym: gelijkvormig

   Antonym: incongruent

congruent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of congruō

Borrowed from French congruent.

congruent m or n (feminine singular congruentă, masculine plural congruenți, feminine and neuter plural congruente)

1. congruent