concordance

Plural: concordances

Noun

• a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole
• agreement of opinions
• an index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts
• Agreement; accordance; consonance.
• Agreement of words with one another; concord.
• An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place.
• A list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.
• The probability that a pair of individuals will both have a certain characteristic (phenotypic trait) given that one of the pair has the characteristic.

Verb

• To create a concordance from (a corpus).

Synonyms

concord, harmony, accordance, agreement, consonance

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