Congruent Meaning
/ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹu.ənt/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjCorresponding in character; congruous.
adjHarmonious.
Sentence Examples
I'm a congruent man.
Two geometric figures are congruent if they have the same shape and size.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
These two shapes are ____ because they have equal sides.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
In geometry class, we learned how to prove that two separate triangles are perfectly ____.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English congruent, from Latin congruēns, present active participle of congruō (“meet together, agree”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"In the course of this work it was borne in on me, increasingly, that the notion of I-schemes, schemes of selving, as the basic structures of our dynamic selves is congruent with developing directions of inquiry both within psychoanalysis and outside it."
— 2013, Irene Fast, Selving: A Relational Theory of Self Organization, →ISBN, page xii:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
These two shapes are ____ because they have equal sides.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
In geometry class, we learned how to prove that two separate triangles are perfectly ____.