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語源

From 中期英語 congruent, from Latin congruēns, present active participle of congruō (“meet together, agree”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹu.ənt/
• (General American, Atlantic Canada) IPA: /ˈkɑŋ.ɡɹu.ənt/, /kənˈɡɹu.ənt/
• (Canada) IPA: /ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹu.ənt/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈkɔŋ.ɡɹʉ.ənt/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹʉ.ənt/, [ˈkɔ̟ŋ.ɡɹʉ.ənt]
• ハイフネーション: con‧gru‧ent

形容詞

congruent (comparative more congruent, superlative most congruent)

1. Corresponding in character; congruous.

   Synonyms: compatible, compliant, consistent; see also Thesaurus:conformant

   Antonym: incongruous

   • 2013, Irene Fast, Selving: A Relational Theory of Self Organization, →ISBN, page xii:

     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. (mathematics) Having a difference divisible by a modulus.
4. (mathematics) Coinciding exactly when superimposed.
5. (algebra) Satisfying a congruence relation.

使用する際の注意点

• In mathematics, this adjective can be used in phrases like “A and B are congruent”, “A is congruent to B”, and, less commonly, “A is congruent with B”.

派生語