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con⋅cord⋅ance

  [kon-kawr-dns, kuhn-]
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–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
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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.

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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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