congruence
IPA: kˈɔngruʌns
noun
- The quality of agreeing or corresponding; being suitable and appropriate.
- (mathematics, number theory) A relation between two numbers indicating they give the same remainder when divided by some given number.
- (mathematics, geometry) The quality of being isometric — roughly, the same measure and shape.
- (mathematics, linear algebra) Matrix similarity by an orthogonal matrix.
- (algebra, more generally) Any equivalence relation defined on an algebraic structure which is preserved by operations defined by the structure.
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Examples of "congruence" in Sentences
- An equivalent formulation is the congruence.
- He also solved the problem of binomial congruence.
- We extend the notion of congruence to this setting.
- So the congruence has at most solutions among the numbers.
- Also, the congruence relation is not defined in the real context.
- We know that 999 is divisible by 37 because of the above congruence.
- The remainder is equivalent to the congruence class in modular arithmetic.
- Congruence is the state achieved by coming together, the state of agreement.
- So the article content is not currently in congruence with the article title.
- The algorithm is one of the first efficient methods to solve such a congruence.