12 September 2014
congruent
[kong-groo-uh nt, kuh n-groo-, kuh ng-]
adjective
1. agreeing; accordant; congruous.
2. Mathematics. of or pertaining to two numbers related by a congruence.
3. Geometry. coinciding at all points when superimposed:
congruent triangles.
Origin
late Middle English Latin
1375-1425; late Middle English < Latin congruent- (stem of congruēns, present participle of congruere to come together, fit in, agree), equivalent to con- con- + -gru- base of uncertain meaning (attested only in this v. and ingruere to fall upon) + -ent- -ent
Related forms
congruently, adverb
noncongruent, adjective
noncongruently, adverb
Can be confused Expand
congruous, congruent, incongruous, incongruent.
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Examples from the web for congruent
Salary is commensurate with education and experience and is congruent with national standards.
He simply felt you could not speak coherently about internal experiences, which was a perfectly congruent position.
By the time she entered her teens, she could look forward to marriage and to a life congruent with the one she knew.
Anagram
grunt once
cogent run
Today’s quote
Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals – and the lesson is not a flattering one.
– Pamela Anderson
On this day
12 September 1869 – death of Peter Roget, British lexographer and creator of Roget’s Thesaurus. (Born 18 January 1779).
12 September 1885 – the highest scoring soccer match in history is a Scottish Cup match played between Arbroath and Bon Accord. Arbroath won 36-0.
12 September 1990 – formal end of World War II. In 1945 there was no formal German state to accept the terms of surrender or the ongoing governing of Germany. The 1945 Potsdam Agreement set the provisional terms under which the Allies would govern Germany. The lack of a German government at the time, became known as ‘The German Question’ and was used by the U.S.A. as the reason for maintaining American bases in West Germany throughout the Cold War. It wasn’t until German re-unification in 1990, that the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) unified. To achieve full sovereignty the new unified state was required to accept the terms of the Potsdam Agreement. A settlement was then negotiated with the new German government between the new German state, the U.S.A, France, U.S.S.R and Britain, formally ending World War II.
12 September 2001 – Ansett, Australia’s first commercial airline, collapses.
12 September 2003 – death of Johnny Cash, American singer and musician. Born 26 February 1932.