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con⋅cord⋅ance

[kon-kawr-dns, kuhn-]
–noun
1. agreement; concord; harmony: the concordance of the membership.
2. an alphabetical index of the principal words of a book, as of the Bible, with a reference to the passage in which each occurs.
3. an alphabetical index of subjects or topics.
4. (in genetic studies) the degree of similarity in a pair of twins with respect to the presence or absence of a particular disease or trait.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME concordaunce < AF, equiv. to MF concordance < ML concordantia. See concord, -ance
con·cor·dance   (kən-kôr'dns)   
n.  
  1. Agreement; concord.
  2. An alphabetical index of all the words in a text or corpus of texts, showing every contextual occurrence of a word: a concordance of Shakespeare's works.
  3. Genetics The presence of a given trait in both members of a pair of twins.

Concordance

Con*cord"ance\, n. [F., fr. LL. concordantia.]

1. Agreement; accordance.

Contrasts, and yet concordances. --Carlyle.

2. (Gram.) Concord; agreement. [Obs.] --Aschlam.

3. 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.

His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance. --Macaulay.

4. A topical index or orderly analysis of the contents of a book.

concordance con·cor·dance (kən-kôr'dns)
n.
The presence of a given trait in both members of a pair of twins.


con·cor'dant adj.

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