congruent

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The two electorates are supposed to be congruent, and Congress has violated that requirement.

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  1. adjective Corresponding; congruous.
  2. adjective Mathematics Coinciding exactly when superimposed: congruent triangles.
  3. adjective Mathematics Of or relating to two numbers that have the same remainder when divided by a third number. For example, 11 and 26 are congruent when the modulus is 5.

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  • Furthermore, we will investigate which cortical regions are particularly responsive to experimental variations of content by comparing semantically matching ( "congruent") and mismatching ( "incongruent") experimental conditions. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The principles for adducing the relative prices which are approximately congruent, in effect, with those physical values, is a matter of the good approximations necessary for conducting local financial transactions within the economy considered as a whole process. —  LaRouche's Latest
  • Note how the faces line up for the most part, but the further you move from them the further from congruent the images become. —  Frames Per Second Magazine
  • Sometimes you have to make deliberate growth in order to be congruent with your personal growth. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • At one point the area included around a third to a half of the island, and at it's lowest proportion it included only an area roughly congruent with the counties of Antrim and Down. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
 

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  1. Middle English, from Latin congruēns, congruent-, present participle of congruere, to agree.

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  1. = French congruent = Spanish Portuguese Italian congruente = D. G. congruent = Danish kongruent, from Latin congruen(t-)s, present participle of con-gruere, agree, suit: see congrue, v.
 

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/ˈkɑŋgruənt/
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