congruity
/kuhn-groo-i-tee, kon-, kuhng-, kong-/US // kənˈgru ɪ ti, kɒn-, kəŋ-, kɒŋ- //
同义性,统一性,吻合度,吻合性
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n.名词 noun
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plural con·gru·i·ties.
- : the state or quality of being congruous; harmony; appropriateness: a congruity of ideas.
- : the state or quality of being geometrically congruent.
- : a point of agreement.
- : Scholasticism. merit bestowed as a divine gift rather than earned.
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nounagreement
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Examples
Scott knew little of Homer, but coincided in the Nestorian humour by mere congruity of genius.
There was a fitness of congruity in putting the head of the old, thrifty economist, on the one cent stamp.
It was a spot which returned upon the memory of those who loved it with an aspect of peculiar and kindly congruity.
It does, however, approximate congruity with these objects as nearly as possible.
The object of thinking is to introduce congruity between the two.
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