Dictionary Definition
concordance
Noun
1 a harmonious state of things in general and of
their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with
one another and with the whole [syn: harmony, concord]
3 an index of all main words in a book along with
their immediate contexts
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
French, from concordantia.Noun
- agreement;
accordance
- Thomas
Carlyle
- Contrasts, and yet concordances.
- Thomas
Carlyle
- In the context of "grammar|obsolete": concord; agreement.
- An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of
a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate
context in each place.
- c. 1857, Thomas
Macaulay, "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica,
- His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.
- c. 1857, Thomas
Macaulay, "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica,
- a list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.
Translations
agreement
- Russian: согласие (soglásije) , согласованность (soglasóvannost')
agreement (grammar)
- Russian: согласование (soglasovánije)
alphabetical index
- Russian: конкорданция (konkordántsyja) ; симфония (simfónija)
See also
Extensive Definition
Concordance can mean:
- Concordance (publishing) — a list of words used in a body of work, with their immediate contexts.
- Concordance system in politics.
- Concordance (genetics) — the presence of the same trait in both members of a pair of twins (or set of individuals).
- Concordance (medicine) — involvement of the patient in decision making to improve treatment Compliance (medicine).
- Grammatical agreement — in linguistics, a form of cross-reference between related words.
- Inter-rater reliability — in statistics, the degree to which multiple measurements of the same thing are similar. Or more specifically:
- Lambda-CDM model of big bang cosmology.
- Concordance (knot theory) in mathematics. A relation between mathematical links.
concordance in German: Konkordanz
(Begriffsklärung)
concordance in Spanish: Concordancia
concordance in French: Concordance
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
acclamation, accompaniment, accord, accordance, affinity, agape, agreement, agreement of all,
alliance, amity, assent, association, atlas, attune, attunement, bipartisanship, bonds of
harmony, brotherly love, cahoots, calendar, caritas, casebook, catalog, catalogue raisonne,
cement of friendship, charity, chime, chiming, chorus, city directory,
classified catalog, co-working, coaction, coadjuvancy, coadministration,
coagency, cochairmanship, codirectorship, coherence, coincidence, collaboration, collaborativeness,
collectivism,
collectivity,
collusion, combination, combined
effort, commensalism, common
assent, common consent, common effort, common enterprise, communalism, communion, communism, communitarianism,
community, community
of interests, compatibility, complicity, concentus, concert, concerted action,
concomitance,
concord, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conformance, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, conjunction, consensus, consensus gentium,
consensus of opinion, consensus omnium, consent, consentaneity, consilience, consistency, consonance, consonancy, consort, conspiracy, cooperation, cooperativeness,
correspondence,
cyclopedia, diapason, diatesseron, dictionary
catalog, directory,
duet, duumvirate, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, empathy, encyclopedia, equivalence, esprit, esprit de corps, euphony, feeling of identity,
fellow feeling, fellowship, frictionlessness,
gazetteer, general
acclamation, general agreement, general consent, general voice,
good vibes, good vibrations, happy family, harmonics, harmony, heavy harmony, homophony, identity, index, intersection, joining of
forces, joint effort, joint operation, junction, kinship, like-mindedness,
love, mass action, meeting
of minds, monochord,
monody, morale, mutual assistance, mutual
understanding, mutualism, mutuality, octet, one accord, one voice,
oneness, overlap, parallelism, parasitism, peace, phone book, polyglot, pooling, pooling of resources,
pulling together, quartet, quintet, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocity, record book,
reference book, same mind, saprophytism,
self-consistency, septet,
sextet, sharing, simultaneity, single voice,
solidarity, source
book, studbook,
symbiosis, symmetry, sympathy, symphony, sync, synchronism, synchronization,
synergism, synergy, tally, team spirit, teamwork, telephone book,
telephone directory, three-part harmony, timing, total agreement, trio, triumvirate, troika, tune, unanimity, unanimousness, understanding, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, united action,
unity, universal
agreement, work of reference