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Meaning of congruence

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

congruence

noun

Definitions

  1. The quality of agreeing or corresponding; being suitable and appropriate.

  2. A relation between two numbers indicating they give the same remainder when divided by some given number.

  3. The quality of being isometric — roughly, the same measure and shape.

  4. More generally: any equivalence relation defined on an algebraic structure which is preserved by operations defined by the structure.