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Etymology

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French concordant, from Latin concordans, present participle of concordare. See concord.

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concordant (comparative more concordant, superlative most concordant)

  1. Agreeing or harmonious; consistent (with).
    Synonyms: consonant, in keeping with
    • 1918, Jagdish Chandra Bose, Life Movement in Plants:
      Even in the case of direct effect, different factors, such as light, temperature, turgor, and so on, are undergoing independent variations; it may thus happen that their reactions may sometimes be concordant and at other times discordant.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: [], 2nd edition, London: [] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, [], →OCLC:
      Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves.
  2. (geology) Intruding parallel to the bedding.
    • 1990, Neville J. Price, John W. Cosgrove, Analysis of Geological Structures, →ISBN, page 60:
      Other forms of concordant intrusions, some of which will be commented upon in this chapter are shown in Fig. 3. 1(6).
  3. (mathematics) Preserving the sign.

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concordant

  1. present participle of concorder

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concordant (feminine concordante, masculine plural concordants, feminine plural concordantes)

  1. concordant

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French concordant.

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concordant m or n (feminine singular concordantă, masculine plural concordanți, feminine and neuter plural concordante)

  1. concordant

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