congruent
adjective
- coincide or correspond to
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”).
- 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.”
- Harmonious.
- Having a difference divisible by a modulus.
- Coinciding exactly when superimposed.
- Satisfying a congruence relation.