concordance


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
concordance /kənˈkɔːd(ə)ns/
noun
  • 1 an alphabetical list of the important words in a text, usually with citations of the passages concerned.
  • 2 formal agreement or consistency.
  • 3 Medicine the inheritance by two related individuals of the same genetic characteristic.
verb (often as adj. concordanced) make a concordance of.
– origin ME: from OFr., from med. L. concordantia, from L. concordant-, concordare ‘agree on’.
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