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congruent, a.|ˈkɒŋgruːənt|
[ad. L. congruent-em agreeing, consistent, congruous, pr. pple. of congruĕre: see congrue v. (Also in mod.F.)]
1. Accordant, suitable, proper; = congruous 1.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 293 A welle nye to the castelle Pascence, congruente to the vse of men, but not of women. 1540Elyot Image Gov. (1556) 17 His temperate and sobre liuying beyng thought of som men not agreable nor congruent to his majestee. a1637B. Jonson Discov. (1641) 119 The congruent and harmonious fitting of parties in a sentence. 1864Bowen Logic iv. 65 Considered in relation to each other, Marks are either Congruent or Repugnant. 1878Lewes Study Psychol. (1879) 166 Each new conclusion has to be..dove-tailed into the rest, made congruent with the system of thought.
†b. Correspondent in physical shape or form.
1578Banister Hist. Man i. 35 The outer side of Talus is largely sinuated..to the apt constitutyng of a seate congruent to the inner side of the lower Appendance of Fibula. 1715Cheyne Philos. Princ. Relig. i. ii. §42 Very smooth and plain, or at least congruent Superficies.
c. Of persons: Agreeing in action with. rare.
1878Tennyson Q. Mary iii. iv, But you, my Lord..In clear and open day were congruent With that vile Cranmer in the accursed lie Of good Queen Catherine's divorce.
†2. = congruous 2. Obs.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 9 After the supputacion of euery yere congruent. 1531Elyot Gov. i. i, It is therfore congruent and accordynge, that, etc. 1576Baker Jewell of Health 46 b, The congruent tyme of the dystillation of Yarrowe is..about the ende of May. 1656Jeanes Mixt. Schol. Div. 86 It was more congruent for the word, the second person to be incarnate..then the first person..or the third. a1718Penn Tracts Wks. 1726 I. 638 It is not congruent for a Philosopher to stutter and babble.
†3. Gram. = congruous 4. Obs.
1596Sir J. Davies Orchestra xcii, For humble grammar first doth set the parts Of congruent and well according speech.
4. Geom.
a. = congruous 6.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Concurring or Congruent Figures (in Geom.), are such as being laid one upon another, will exactly meet and cover one another. 1715Cheyne Philos. Princ. Relig. (J.), These planes were so separated as to move upon a common side of the congruent squares, as an axis. 1885C. Leudesdorf Cremona's Proj. Geom. §76 Two figures are said to be congruent when the one may be superposed upon the other so as exactly to coincide with it.
b. Cf. congruence, congruency.
1864Plücker New Geom. of Space in Phil. Trans. (1865) 727 A configuration may be regarded as the mutual intersection of three complexes, i.e. as the geometrical locus of congruent rays belonging to all three complexes.
5. Theory of Numbers. Said of two numbers which being divided by a third number, called the modulus, give the same remainder.
Thus 15 and 29 are congruent with respect to the modulus 7; whence e.g. it follows that the 15th and 29th of any month fall on the same day of the week.
1889Chrystal Algebra, If m be any positive integer whatever, which we call the modulus, two integers, M and N, which leave the same remainder when divided by m, are said to be congruent with respect to the modulus m. |