congruence
noun
Meaning
- The quality of agreeing or corresponding; being suitable and appropriate.
- A relation between two numbers indicating they give the same remainder when divided by some given number.
- The quality of being isometric — roughly, the same measure and shape.
- More generally: any equivalence relation defined on an algebraic structure which is preserved by operations defined by the structure.
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