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  • noun Plural form of congruence.

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Examples

  • Every one of these congruences is 0, as it should be.

    Wolfram Blog : Today We Broke the Bernoulli Record: From the Analytical Engine to Mathematica 2008

  • In The Delighted States, Thirlwell is making a case for the efficacy of translation that calls for numerous and at times subtle comparisons and analogies, and his manner of leading the reader along his route of unexpected congruences, pointing out the connections more as an enthusiastic guide than as a source of critical pronouncements, is a perfectly sound way to proceed.

    Translated Texts 2010

  • A few discerning readers might also spot some congruences with the ending in one of Lincoln Child's previous solo thrillers.

    "Impact" by Douglas Preston (Reviewed by Mihir Wanchoo) Cindy 2010

  • While often striving to illustrate the theological congruences between Judaism and Protestantism, she also repeatedly sought to identify Jews with the Protestant nation that had given them refuge from Catholic persecution and that, she insisted, had inspired in them a new patriotism.

    Writers in Victorian England. 2009

  • CONGESTION CHARGE and BNP: We have been told in comments that Peel Holdings have distanced themselves from MART because the latter's links to and congruences with the Tameside BNP were allegedly too great.

    That BNP Membership List: GMC Postcode Counts 2008

  • With these congruences and those relating to Eden and the Flood myth, the idea that (Ea/Ay (y) a) = (Yaw/Yah) = YHWH doesn't seem too radical a leap to me.

    A Dark And Hidden God Hal Duncan 2006

  • Anything which might be called space or spacetime is then something which we hang on projective geometry or sets of null congruences.

    Does Space Expand? Sean 2008

  • What we might say has a concrete reality in physics are null rays, congruences of null geodesics and projective geometries.

    Does Space Expand? Sean 2008

  • Instead, you can note - and I have noted - the similarities and congruences of Libertarianism, then follow where things go from there.

    “Your Morality” Quizzes. Fun Stuff. 2008

  • They were rough age peers (Bellow was three years older), with striking congruences in their biographies.

    Missing Bellow 2005

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