Congruent
/ˈkɑŋ.ɡɹu.ənt/ adj
adj ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 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."
- 2 Harmonious.
- 3 Having a difference divisible by a modulus.
- 4 Coinciding exactly when superimposed.
- 5 Satisfying a congruence relation.
Adjective
- 1 coinciding when superimposed wordnet
- 2 corresponding in character or kind wordnet
Example
More examples"“You will not?” asked the lady. “No, by heavens, madam!” her husband replied; “ask me anything congruent with common decency, as to drop his acquaintance by degrees, or the like; but to bid him leave my house is what I will not and cannot consent to.”"
Etymology
From Middle English congruent, from Latin congruēns, present active participle of congruō (“meet together, agree”).