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consilience

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con·sil·i·ence   (kən-sĭl'ē-əns)   
n.  The agreement of two or more inductions drawn from different sets of data; concurrence.

[con- + English morpheme -sili- (as in resilience, from Latin salīre, -silīre; see resile) + -ence.]
con·sil'i·ent adj.
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