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語源

• (compliance): First attested around 1300.
• (agreement): First attested in the early 14th century.
• accord +‎ -ance
• From 中期英語 accordaunce, from Old French acordance (“agreeing, reconciliation, harmony”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈkɔː.dəns/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /əˈkoɹ.dəns/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /əˈkoː.dəns/

名詞

accordance (countable and uncountable, plural accordances)

1. Agreement; harmony; conformity; compliance.
   • 1607, Francis Bacon, Phenomena of the Universe Or Natural History for the Building Up of Philosophy‎, Preface:

     However, I do not think it appropriate to divide my history in accordance with this threefold partition, so as to deal with singular instances separately, but I shall mix the three kinds, joining things natural with artificial, ordinary with extraordinary, and paying very close attention to all the most useful ones.

   • 1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XV, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     And what had been done that was not in strict accordance with the law of Parliament?

   • 2012, Exit and Entry Administration Law of the People's Republic of China‎, Chapter II (Exit and Entry of Chinese Citizens), Article 9:

     Chinese citizens who exit or enter China shall, in accordance with the law, apply for passports or other travel documents.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:accordance.
2. The act of granting something.

同意語

• harmony, unison, coincidence

派生語

• in accordance with
• unaccordance