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congruent

adjective

  1. coincide or correspond to
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹu.ənt/ / /ˈkɑŋ.ɡɹu.ənt/ / /kənˈɡɹu.ənt/

adj

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

  1. Corresponding in character; congruous.

    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.
  3. Having a difference divisible by a modulus.
  4. Coinciding exactly when superimposed.
  5. Satisfying a congruence relation.