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concordant en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /kəŋˈkɔː(ɹ)dənt/

Etymology

French concordant, from Latin concordans, present participle of concordare. See concord.

Meanings

1. Agreeing or harmonious; consistent (with).
   • Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves. 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
   • 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. 1918, Jagdish Chandra Bose, Life Movement in Plants:
2. Intruding parallel to the bedding.
   • Other forms of concordant intrusions, some of which will be commented upon in this chapter are shown in Fig. 3. 1(6). 1990, Neville J. Price, John W. Cosgrove, Analysis of Geological Structures, →ISBN, page 60:
3. Preserving the sign.

Forms

Antonyms

discordant · nonconcordant

Deriveds

subconcordant · seroconcordant · concordantly · unconcordant · immunoconcordant · disconcordant

Synonyms

in keeping with · consonant

Translations (20)

ca concordant (agreeing, correspondent, harmonious) · gd aon-ghuthach (agreeing, correspondent, harmonious) · it concorde (agreeing, correspondent, harmonious) · es concorde (agreeing, correspondent, harmonious) · pl zgodny (agreeing, correspondent, harmonious) · got 𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌹𐌻𐌾𐌹𐍃 (agreeing, correspondent, harmonious) · pt concorde (agreeing, correspondent, harmonious) · cy cydgordiol (agreeing, correspondent, harmonious) · pt concordante (agreeing, correspondent, harmonious) · ru согласованный (agreeing, correspondent, harmonious) · hu megegyező (agreeing, correspondent, harmonious) · es concordante (agreeing, correspondent, harmonious) · cy cytûn (agreeing, correspondent, harmonious) · pt conforme (agreeing, correspondent, harmonious) · hu összhangban álló (agreeing, correspondent, harmonious) · gv coardailagh (agreeing, correspondent, harmonious) · it concordante (agreeing, correspondent, harmonious) · fr concordant (agreeing, correspondent, harmonious) · cy cyfun (agreeing, correspondent, harmonious) · gv co-vingyssagh (agreeing, correspondent, harmonious)