concordant

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/kəŋˈkɔː(ɹ)dənt/

adjective

Agreeing or harmonious; consistent (with).

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Meanings

adjectiveconcordant (comparative more concordant, superlative most concordant)

comparative more concordant · superlative most concordant · alternative concordaunt

  1. Agreeing or harmonious; consistent (with).

    Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves.

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
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    Even in the case of direct effect, different factors, such as light, temperature, turgor, and so on, are undergoing independent variations; it may thus happen that their reactions may sometimes be concordant and at other times discordant.

    1918, Jagdish Chandra Bose, Life Movement in Plants

    Synonyms: consonant, in keeping with

  2. geographyIntruding parallel to the bedding.

    Other forms of concordant intrusions, some of which will be commented upon in this chapter are shown in Fig. 3. 1(6).

    1990, Neville J. Price, John W. Cosgrove, Analysis of Geological Structures, →ISBN, page 60
  3. mathematicsPreserving the sign.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveAgreeing or harmonious; consistent (with).

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivebeing of the same opinion

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latinconcordans
  2. Frenchconcordant
  3. Englishconcordant

French concordant, from Latin concordans, present participle of concordare. See concord.

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Translations

Catalan concordant
  • concordantagreeing, correspondent, harmonious
French concordant
  • concordantagreeing, correspondent, harmonious
Hungarian megegyező, összhangban álló
  • megegyezőagreeing, correspondent, harmonious
  • összhangban állóagreeing, correspondent, harmonious
Italian concordante, concorde
  • concordanteagreeing, correspondent, harmonious
  • concordeagreeing, correspondent, harmonious
Polish zgodny
  • zgodnyagreeing, correspondent, harmonious
Portuguese conforme, concordante
  • conformeagreeing, correspondent, harmonious
  • concordanteagreeing, correspondent, harmonious
  • concordeagreeing, correspondent, harmonious
Russian согласованный
  • согласованный (soglasovannyj)agreeing, correspondent, harmonious
Scottish Gaelic aon-ghuthach
  • aon-ghuthachagreeing, correspondent, harmonious
Spanish concordante, concorde
  • concordanteagreeing, correspondent, harmonious
  • concordeagreeing, correspondent, harmonious
Welsh cytûn, cyfun
  • cytûnagreeing, correspondent, harmonious
  • cyfunagreeing, correspondent, harmonious
  • cydgordiolagreeing, correspondent, harmonious
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