Etymology From Old French concordance, from Late Latin concordantia.
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Agreement; accordance; consonance.
John Sterling at Herstmonceux that afternoon, and his Father here in London, would have offered strange contrasts to an eye that had seen them both. Contrasts, and yet concordances.1850, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, Part Second, Chapter I:
A listing, often lemmatized and alphabetized, showing the places in a text, especially the Bible, where each word or phrase may be found, and its immediate context in each place.
Chiefly biblical studies
c. 1857, Thomas Macaulay, "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.
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Computational, Computing, Engineering, Human sciences, Linguistics, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A listing, usually tokenized, where every word or phrase in a corpus can be found alongside its immediate context in each usage.
Chiefly biblical studies
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Biology, Genetics, Medicine, Natural sciences, Sciences The probability that a pair of individuals will both have a certain characteristic (phenotypic trait) given that one of the pair has the characteristic.
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Medicine, Sciences A patient's compliance with a medicinal prescription.
Etymology From Old French concordance, from Late Latin concordantia.
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To create a concordance from (a corpus).
Different from concordances of the Bible or classic works in the western tradition, which were basically complete concordances of a specific single book, the Chinese Lei Shu usually concordanced miscellaneous books.2015, Wenzhong Li, Simon Smith, “Introduction”, in Bin Zhou, Simon Smith, Michael Hoey, editors, Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts (New Language Learning and Teaching Environments), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 2: