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Verb
/kənˈkôrdns/,
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concordances, plural;
  1. Make a concordance of
    • - the value of concordanced information
Noun
  1. An alphabetical list of the words (esp. the important ones) present in a text, usually with citations of the passages concerned
    • - a concordance to the Bible
  2. Agreement
    • - the concordance between the teams' research results
  3. The inheritance by two related individuals (esp. twins) of the same genetic characteristic, such as susceptibility to a disease


  1. harmony: 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
  2. harmony: agreement of opinions
  3. an index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts
  4. (concordant) accordant: in keeping; "salaries agreeable with current trends"; "plans conformable with your wishes"; "expressed views concordant with his background"
  5. (concordant) being of the same opinion
  6. Concordance as used in genetics usually means the presence of the same trait in both members of a pair of twins. However, the strict definition is the probability that a pair of individuals will both have a certain characteristic, given that one of the pair has the characteristic. ...
  7. In medicine, compliance (also adherence or concordance) describes the degree to which a patient correctly follows medical advice. ...
  8. A concordancer is a computer program that automatically constructs a concordance. The output of a concordancer may serve as input to a translation memory system for computer-assisted translation, or as an early step in machine translation.
  9. (Concordancing) Corpus linguistics is the study of language as expressed in samples (corpora) or "real world" text. This method represents a digestive approach to deriving a set of abstract rules by which a natural language is governed or else relates to another language. ...
  10. A concordant, longitudinal, or Pacific type coastline occurs where beds, or layers, of differing rock types are folded into ridges that run parallel to the coast. ...
  11. (concordancers) are computer programs which search a corpus of text for some word and produce a list of its occurrences, together with a portion of preceding and following context. ...
  12. (Concordant) In a research study for twins, this would mean that both twins have that specific condition or disease that is being studied. For example, twins who are "concordant" for autism means that they are both autistic.
  13. (concordant) Statistically similar in the incidence of certain genetically influenced traits or predispositions; characteristic of monozygotic twins.
  14. (concordant) describes an intrusive igneous body whose surfaces are parallel to the bedding (or foliation) of the surrounding rocks
  15. The listing of words from a text, along with every contextual occurence of the words. Concordance is very valuable for research, and very rare to see in search engines, because it requires efficiency to do well. PicoSearch offers concordance, and we call this feature "results in context".
  16. An index of a text, based on words, lemmas, or morphemes with their immediate contexts. Concordance software can automatically generate such lists, given a set of words, lemmas, or morphemes, and a text.
  17. Similarity of results between different microarray platforms. Related terms: discordance, mismatches
  18. a list of the words used in a text or group of texts. The normal way of consulting a corpus is to look at concordances which show words in the context in which they occur.
  19. A list of words, normally in alphabetical order, where each occurrence of each word is shown with surrounding context and identified by a reference indicating where it occurs in the text.
  20. Search patterns in their context. This is an analysis that shows search patterns and their context in one line (similiar to KWICs). The search patterns are in the center of a line, the rest consists of the context before and after the search pattern. ...
  21. For two or more loci or traits typed in offspring from a backcross or RI strain, the presence of alleles (or expression of a trait) derived from the same parental chromosome (see Chapter 9).
  22. a technique for studying inheritance by examining characteristics of individuals whose genetic relationship is known.
  23. An index of all principal words in a work or in all the works of one author, e.g. Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare, Dickens Concordance.
  24. Alphabetical index of words in a book or in an author's works with the passages in which they occur.
  25. An alphabetical list of key words that can be used for locating a Bible quotation or identifying related material. It catalogues the places in the text where significant words may be found, with their chapter and verse.