Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Agreement; harmony; accord.
- n. Close correspondence of sounds.
- n. The repetition of consonants or of a consonant pattern, especially at the ends of words, as in blank and think or strong and string.
- n. Music A simultaneous combination of sounds not requiring resolution to another combination of sounds for finality of effect and conventionally regarded as harmonious or pleasing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Accord or agreement of sounds; specifically, in music, a simultaneous combination of two tones that is, by itself, both agreeable and final in effect. The perfect consonances are the unison, the octave, the fifth, and the fourth; the imperfect are the major and minor thirds and the major and minor sixths. The effect of consonances is due to the simplicity of the ratio between the vibration-numbers of their constituent tones. Thus, the ratio of the unison is
; of the octave, ; of the fifth, ; of the fourth, ; of the major sixth, ; of the major third, ; of the minor third, ; of the minor sixth, . Also called concord . - n. A state of agreement or accordance; congruity; harmony; consistency: as, the consonance of opinions among judges; the consonance of a ritual to the Scriptures.
- n. The sympathetic vibration of a sonorous body, as a piano-string, when another of the same pitch is sounded near it.
Wiktionary
- n. The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels as in assonance.
- n. harmony; agreement; lack of discordance
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth.
- n. Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency; suitableness.
- n. Friendship; concord.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the property of sounding harmonious
- n. the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
Examples
“We will review the order carefully and issue appropriate guidance to ensure that we continue to act in consonance with the law and with policy direction.”
“Perhaps because it was in consonance with Nazi doctrine and "efficiency" promulgated by the German High Command such as was reflected in a message received by Adolf Diekmann, the commander of the Nazi troops that committed the Oradour atrocities, on the eve of that massacre:”
The Huffington Post: Dorian de Wind: France: Impressions of a Passer-By
“So the "key aspirations" of egalitarian liberals and social conservatives are "broadly in consonance" with ruining the lives of poor immigrants in order to cut native-born yuppies down to size?”
Malevolent Aspirations, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“This despite the fact that the solution is broadly in consonance with the key aspirations of egalitarian liberals and social conservatives alike: the solution, of course, is to reverse the steady shift from household production to market production.”
Malevolent Aspirations, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“I believe Buzz is referring to the relatively (last 10-15 years) recent spate of film and tv SF with photorealistic (or, let's say, extremely slick) visual effects that inevitably and by nature of the format and genre, compress action and timescales in consonance with bite-size time and attention spans.”
MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Responsible for the Lack of Public Interest in Space Exploration?
“In other words, duration of BRM should be in consonance with the requirement of time to sufficiently discuss all technical issues raised.”
“We find that the Draft Patent Manual seeks to introduce software patents and we believe that this is not in consonance with the current legal situation India where Clause 3 (k) of the Indian Patent Act clearly says,”
“Venkatesh Hariharan, who heads Red Hat India's open source affairs, said the draft patent manual that seeks to introduce patents is not in consonance with the current legal situation.”
“Therefore, I argue that the Diggers 'and Farmies' distinctive forms of countercultural manhood emerged in consonance with, and in response to, their respective primary commitments to anarchist or mystical ideology and praxis.”
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
“When I logged on the first time to make a comment, Anaxagoras seemed to be in consonance with the theme here.”
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the act of; quality or state of being; a thing that
utterance, vigilance, conveyance, dissonance, constancy, valance, consonance
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