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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
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Reduce friction and align yourself with maximum congruence; get all the elements going in the same direction.
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At the close, there’s a fugue-like absence where there should be congruence and meaning.
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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.
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First Known Use of congruence
15th century
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