concordance
noun
- collection of mappings between knowledge organisation systems
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /kənˈkɔːdəns/ / /kənˈkɔɹdəns/
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Old Latin com Late Latin cum Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd- Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥d- Proto-Italic *kord Late Latin cor Late Latin concors Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Late Latin -ō Late Latin concordō Late Latin concordantiader. Old French concordanceder. English concordance From Old French concordance, from Late Latin concordantia.
- Agreement; accordance; consonance.
“John Sterling at Herstmonceux that afternoon, and his Father here in London, would have offered strange contrasts to an eye that had seen them both. Contrasts, and yet concordances.”
- Agreement of words with one another; concord.
- A listing, often lemmatized and alphabetized, showing the places in a text, especially the Bible, where each word or phrase may be found, and its immediate context in each place.
“c. 1857, Thomas Macaulay, "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.”
- A listing, often lemmatized and alphabetized, showing the places in a text, especially the Bible, where each word or phrase may be found, and its immediate context in each place.
- The probability that a pair of individuals will both have a certain characteristic (phenotypic trait) given that one of the pair has the characteristic.
- A patient's compliance with a medicinal prescription.
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Old Latin com Late Latin cum Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd- Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥d- Proto-Italic *kord Late Latin cor Late Latin concors Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Late Latin -ō Late Latin concordō Late Latin concordantiader. Old French concordanceder. English concordance From Old French concordance, from Late Latin concordantia.
- To create a concordance from (a corpus).
“Different from concordances of the Bible or classic works in the western tradition, which were basically complete concordances of a specific single book, the Chinese Lei Shu usually concordanced miscellaneous books.”