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Adjective
/kənˈgro͞oənt/,/ˈkäNGgro͞oənt/,
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In agreement or harmony,
  1. In agreement or harmony
    • - institutional and departmental objectives are largely congruent
    • - the rules may not be congruent with the requirements of the law
  2. (of figures) Identical in form; coinciding exactly when superimposed


  1. congruous: corresponding in character or kind
  2. coinciding when superimposed
  3. (congruence) congruity: the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate
  4. (Congruence (geometry)) In geometry, two figures are congruent if they have the same shape and size. More formally, two sets of points are called congruent if, and only if, one can be transformed into the other by an isometry, i.e., a combination of translations, rotations and reflections.
  5. (Congruence (in algebra)) In abstract algebra, a congruence relation (or simply congruence) is an equivalence relation on an algebraic structure (such as a group, ring, or vector space) that is compatible with the structure. ...
  6. (Congruence (manifolds)) In the theory of smooth manifolds, a congruence is the set of integral curves defined by a nonvanishing vector field defined on the manifold.
  7. (congruently) In a congruent manner
  8. (Congruence) When all of a person's internal beliefs, strategies, and behaviors are fully in agreement and oriented toward securing a desired outcome.
  9. (Congruence (Conformité)) Congruence describes the degree of fit between a given performance measure and a commitment, on the one hand, and between a set of performance measures and a set of results recorded under Results Achieved, on the other hand. ...
  10. (CONGRUENCE) A quality of the client-centered therapist, consisting of openness to the client.
  11. (Congruence (PCT)) Consistency between the thoughts and feelings the therapist experiences and her or his professional demeanour. Not putting on a professional facade.
  12. (Congruence) (sometimes called genuineness) refers to a consistency in a therapist's feelings and behavior toward a client. The therapist's behavior toward the client must be a reflection of how he or she really feels; it cannot be an act. ...
  13. (Congruence) A state wherein one's internal representation works in an aligned way. What a person says corresponds with what they do. Both their non-verbal signals and their verbal statements match. A state of unity, fitness, internal harmony, not conflict.
  14. (Congruence) According to Carl Rogers, the accurate match between self-concept and reality.
  15. (Congruence) Agreement among data or data sets.
  16. (Congruence) Allowing outside expression and behavior to match inside feelings.
  17. (Congruence) The match of a person's body language (gestures, posture and voice patterns) with their verbal output (auditory digital) while they are communicating. Congruence in communication is one of the patterns found in charismatic people. ...
  18. (Congruence) When behaviour (words, tonality, physiology, etc.) matches the words a person says.
  19. (Congruence) When we try to decide if two things are the same we do it based on features we think are important. We might decide that the apple and the orange in the previous paragraph are equal because weight is what we care about even though they're different in many other ways. ...
  20. (Congruence) When your thoughts (consciously and subconsciously), feelings, and behaviors are in alignment with your goals.
  21. (Congruence) Wholeheartedness. When someone says they want to do something and they really mean it, they are congruent: their words, body language and voice tone all align.
  22. (Congruence) having all parts of yourself working in harmony; being at one with yourself.
  23. (Congruence) the degree to which alternate phylogenetic trees agree.
  24. (Congruence) the property of characters that support the same cladogram. See also Compatible characters.
  25. (congruence) Property of a set of integers which differ from each other by a multiple of the modulus. Congruence is indicated by the symbol º. For example, 39 º 6 (mod 11) indicates that 39 and 6 are congruent with respect to the modulus 11, i.e., 39 - 6 = 33, that is a multiple of 11. ...