congruent
It may be possible for us to argue that there is a congruence between these two elements.
We didn't have exact congruence between the two groups, but there was a tremendous amount of overlap.
interpersonal congruence in small work groups

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Similar and the same
adjacent
affinity
akin
alike
allied
ballpark
be no better than (a) somethingidiom
congruent
ditto
equivalency
equivalent
equivalent of something
equivalent to something
equivalently
non-distinctive
not make any differenceidiom
of the kindidiom
one and the sameidiom
respecter
synonymous

Examples of congruence

congruence
If t is a variable x(), then the congruence rule applies, while the inductive step is straightforward.
Comparable units (bridge : future, men : wolves) partially converge and partially diverge, exhibiting "fractional congruence" - by-degrees likeness-unlikeness between text-partials.
Terms may be traversed more than once resulting in redundant applications of congruence rules.
By definition, operational approximation (and hence operational equivalence) is a congruence relation on expressions.
The consistency of overall deference in discourse depends on the congruence of deference effects marked independently by several honorific lexemes.
It is natural to ask whether the bisimilarity defined in this section is a congruence.
If a necessary form of congruence is lacking, various compromise strategies are employed.
It coincides with ambient-calculus congruence, when restricted to this set of terms.
He characterises this equivalence as the bisimulation induced by a certain labelled transition system, and shows that the equivalence is closely related to structural congruence.
Moreover, thinking aloud often happens in congruence with test tasks.
Note that if process synchronisation is allowed and eager equivalence and/or lazy equivalence do not coincide with performance congruence, they are not even compositional.
During the process towards congruence, social class, political affiliation and ideology do not appear as reliable indicators of political behaviour.
This congruence of the spatial, melodic and dynamic aspects resolves, without omission, all of the implicative processes generated in the first section.
The prominent use of the bi-directional motifs may indicate congruence between the narratives' structural coherence and the narrators' explicit efforts to create continuity.
Nevertheless, there are many situations where the greatest congruence exists and the freezing equivalence captures it.
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