congruent
adjUK /ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹu.ənt/ · US /ˈkɑŋ.ɡɹu.ənt/
Etymology From Middle English congruent, from Latin congruēns, present active participle of congruō (“meet together, agree”).
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.2013, Irene Fast, Selving: A Relational Theory of Self Organization, →ISBN, page xii:
2
Harmonious.
3
Mathematics, Sciences Having a difference divisible by a modulus.
4
Mathematics, Sciences Coinciding exactly when superimposed.
5
Algebra, Mathematics, Sciences Satisfying a congruence relation.
- Derived terms
- congruently, congruent number, congruent triangle, incongruent, noncongruent, scissor-congruent, scissors-congruent, ultracongruent, uncongruent
- Related terms
- congruence