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concordance
[ kon-kawr-dns, kuhn- ]
noun
- agreement; concord; harmony:
the concordance of the membership.
- an alphabetical index of the principal words of a book, as of the Bible, with a reference to the passage in which each occurs.
- an alphabetical index of subjects or topics.
- (in genetic studies) the degree of similarity in a pair of twins with respect to the presence or absence of a particular disease or trait.
concordance
/ kənˈkɔːdəns /
noun
- a state or condition of agreement or harmony
- a book that indexes the principal words in a literary work, often with the immediate context and an account of the meaning
- an index produced by computer or machine, alphabetically listing every word in a text
- an alphabetical list of subjects or topics
Word History and Origins
Origin of concordance1
Example Sentences
Drinking concordance among couples may be a reflection of compatibility among partners in their lifestyles, intimacy and relationship satisfaction.
Finally, no concordance in epimutations between newborns and their parents was observed, arguing against direct inheritance.
Last July, it said the artist had “always acted in concordance with the law and on the advice of her financial advisers.”
"So I see great concordance between the changed investment strategies of the companies and what this government wrote up."
The developer of a statistical method called factor analysis, Charles Spearman, concluded in 1904 that a general factor of intelligence, called a g factor, must underlie the concordance of measurements for varying human cognitive skills.
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