congruence

noun con·gru·ence \ kən-ˈgrü-ən(t)s , ˈkäŋ-grü-ən(t)s \

|Updated on: 2 May 2018

Examples: congruence in a Sentence

Definition of congruence

1 : the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent

… the happy congruence of nature and reason …
—Gertrude Himmelfarb

2 : a statement that two numbers or geometric figures are congruent

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Examples of congruence in a Sentence

little apparent congruence between her professed concern for the poor and her own extravagant lifestyle

Recent Examples of congruence from the Web

Yet the Holocaust has unavoidable international dimensions—lines of influence, circles of complicity, moments of congruence.

— naomi fry, The New Yorker, "How American Racism Influenced Hitler," 23 Apr. 2018
Hulu asserted its ambition last year with the dystopian literary adaptation The Handmaid’s Tale, a drama that resonated with viewers thanks to its congruence with certain strains in the culture in 2017.

— daniel d'addario, Time, "The Looming Tower Tells a Darkly Ironic Story About the Pre-9/11 Years," 28 Feb. 2018
Heathers‘s problem of tone is not just the accidental congruence that crops up when artists take risks.

— daniel d'addario, Time, "The Heathers Reboot Is Delayed. But the Show Was Always a Bad Idea," 1 Mar. 2018
But as the play turns more serious in the last third, finally revealing what happened in New York, the congruence of form and function begins to fray.

— jesse green, New York Times, "Review: In ‘Today Is My Birthday,’ Love Is a Butt Dial," 10 Dec. 2017
Clearly, the Phillies cared more about philosophical congruence than instructional pedigree.

— marcus hayes, Philly.com, "Phillies to hire New Age thinker as manager | Marcus Hayes," 30 Oct. 2017
At the close, there’s a fugue-like absence where there should be congruence and meaning.

— lucy scholes, New York Times, "Two Immigrant Families Intertwine During London’s Summer of Bombs," 28 Apr. 2017
Reduce friction and align yourself with maximum congruence; get all the elements going in the same direction.

— Philly.com, "Horoscopes: Wednesday, June 28, 2017," 28 June 2017
The production techniques used in execution videos produced in Libya were so similar to ones emerging from Syria that some experts theorized that the Islamic State must have dispatched a cameraman from Syria to Libya to achieve that congruence.

— rod nordland, New York Times, "U.S. Conducts Airstrikes Against ISIS in Libya AUG. 1, 2016," 10 Aug. 2016

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