Definition of Congruency

1. n. Congruence.

Definition of Congruency

1. Noun. The quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate ¹

2. Noun. (mathematics) The state of being congruent ¹

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Definition of Congruency

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Congruency

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congruency (current term)
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Literary usage of Congruency

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1882)
"And so, in general, we have as a congruency of lines the system of the ... But more than this, every congruency of lines may be regarded as the system of ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1867)
"In a linear congruency of ordinary or rotatory forces, the directions of all ... In a double congruency of ordinary forces there is one force of given ..."

3. A Treatise on the Theory of Screws by Robert Stanwell Ball (1900)
"A linear congruency is constituted by those screws of zero pitch whose coordinates satisfy two linear equations. They are the screws which belong to a ..."

4. Quaternions and Projective Geometry by Charles Jasper Joly (1903)
"The congruency of connectors of Jacobian correspondents is intimately connected with the theory of the last article. We have already considered the case in ..."

5. Elements of Quaternions by William Rowan Hamilton (1901)
"congruency of double edges of cones of complex. Order and class. ... Focal surface of congruency is Kummer surface of complex, p. 431. Pages NOTE XIII. ..."

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