concordant
English
Alternative forms
- concordaunt (obsolete)
Etymology
French concordant, from Latin concordans, present participle of concordare. See concord.
Adjective
concordant (comparative more concordant, superlative most concordant)
- Agreeing or harmonious; consistent (with).
- Synonyms: consonant, in keeping with
- 1918, Jagdish Chandra Bose, Life Movement in Plants
- 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.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica
- Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves.
- (geology) Intruding parallel to the bedding.
- 1990, Neville J. Price & John W. Cosgrove, Analysis of Geological Structures, →ISBN, page 60:
- Other forms of concordant intrusions, some of which will be commented upon in this chapter are shown in Fig. 3. 1(6).
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- (mathematics) Preserving the sign.
Antonyms
Translations
agreeing, correspondent, harmonious
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French
Adjective
concordant (feminine singular concordante, masculine plural concordants, feminine plural concordantes)
Further reading
- “concordant” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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