congruent

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, Atlantic Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑŋ.ɡɹu.ənt/, /kənˈɡɹu.ənt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹu.ənt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔŋ.ɡɹʉ.ənt/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹʉ.ənt/, [ˈkɔ̟ŋ.ɡɹʉ.ənt]
• Hyphenation: con‧gru‧ent

Adjective

congruent (comparative more congruent, superlative most congruent)

1. Corresponding in character; congruous.

   Synonyms: compatible, compliant, consistent; see also Thesaurus:conformant

   Antonym: incongruous

   • 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.

Usage notes

• 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”.

Derived terms

• congruently
• congruent number, congruent triangle
• incongruent
• noncongruent
• scissor-congruent
• scissors-congruent
• ultracongruent
• uncongruent

Translations

corresponding in character

• Bulgarian: съответен (bg) (sǎotveten)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 相符的 (xiāngfú de), 相稱的 / 相称的 (xiāngchèn de)

• Czech: souhlasný (cs), slučitelný
• Finnish: yhdenmukainen (fi)
• French: conforme (fr), convenable (fr), congruent (fr)
• Hungarian: kongruens (hu)
• Indonesian: sebangun
• Irish: comhionann
• Persian: هماهنگ (fa)
• Portuguese: congruente (pt)
• Russian: соотве́тствующий (ru) (sootvétstvujuščij), совпада́ющий (ru) (sovpadájuščij)

harmonious — see harmonious

with difference divisible by modulus

• Bulgarian: конгруентен (kongruenten)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 同餘的 / 同余的 (tóngyú de)

• Czech: kongruentní
• Esperanto: kongrua
• Finnish: kongruentti
• French: congru (fr)
• German: kongruent (de)
• Icelandic: samleifa m
• Polish: przystający (pl) m, kongruentny
• Portuguese: congruente (pt)
• Russian: конгруэ́нтный (ru) (kongruéntnyj)
• Spanish: congruente (es)
• Swedish: kongruent (sv)
• Tagalog: magkalapat, kalapat

coinciding when superimposed

• Bulgarian: съвпадащ (bg) (sǎvpadašt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 全等的 (quánděng de)

• Czech: shodný (cs)
• Finnish: yhtenevä (fi)
• Hindi: सर्वांगसम (sarvāṅgsam)
• Hungarian: egybevágó (hu)
• Icelandic: samsniða m, aljafn m, eins (is) m
• Indonesian: kongruen
• Malay: kongruen
• Polish: przystający (pl) m
• Portuguese: congruente (pt)
• Spanish: congruente (es)
• Swedish: kongruent (sv)
• Tagalog: magkalapat, kalapat

satisfying a congruence relation

•  Chinese:

   Mandarin: 同餘的 / 同余的 (tóngyú de), 全等的 (quánděng de)

•  Finnish: kongruentti
•  French: please add this translation if you can

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• French: ^{(please verify)} congru (fr)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin congruēns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔŋ.ɣryˈɛnt/

• Audio:

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

Adjective

congruent (comparative congruenter, superlative congruentst)

1. congruent

   Synonym: gelijkvormig

   Antonym: incongruent

Declension

Declension of congruent
uninflected	congruent
inflected	congruente
comparative	congruenter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		congruent	congruenter	het congruentst het congruentste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	congruente	congruentere	congruentste
	n. sing.	congruent	congruenter	congruentste
	plural	congruente	congruentere	congruentste
definite		congruente	congruentere	congruentste
partitive		congruents	congruenters	—

Related terms

• congruentie
• congrueren
• incongruent

French

Etymology

Latin congruēns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.ɡʁy.ɑ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Adjective

congruent (feminine congruente, masculine plural congruents, feminine plural congruentes)

1. congruent
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:

     — Quelle épouvantable catastrophe! s'écria l'apothicaire, qui avait toujours des expressions congruentes à toutes les circonstances imaginables.

     “What a terrible catastrophe!” cried the druggist, who always found expressions in harmony with all imaginable circumstances.

Further reading

• “congruent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Latin

Verb

congruent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of congruō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French congruent.

Adjective

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

1. congruent

Declension

Declension of congruent

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	congruent		congruentă	congruenți	congruente
	definite	congruentul		congruenta	congruenții	congruentele
genitive- dative	indefinite	congruent		congruente	congruenți	congruente
	definite	congruentului		congruentei	congruenților	congruentelor