Definitions for congruent

congruent con·gru·ent

Spelling: [kong-groo-uh nt, kuh n-groo-, k Congruent is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 343 anagrams from letters in congruent (cegnnortu).

Definitions for congruent

adjective

  1. agreeing; accordant; congruous.
  2. Mathematics. of or relating to two numbers related by a congruence.
  3. Geometry. coinciding at all points when superimposed:

Origin of congruent

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin congruent- (stem of congruēns, present participle of congruere to come together, fit in, agree), equivalent to con- con- + -gru- b

Examples for congruent

Form of the outer shell not a sphere, but a regular octahedron, with eight congruent, equilateral triangular even faces.

We therefore speak of congruent triangles and congruent parallelograms as being those that are superposable.

The transparency is then transferred and adjusted to the other enlargement, the curves of which should be seen to be congruent.

Chief among these are the words "equal," "congruent," and "equivalent."

It is rather a definition of "equal," or of "congruent," to take the modern term.

congruent people are well integrated, no longer in need of "masks."

That solution is not congruent with the Cato Institute philosophy.

congruent polygons are therefore necessarily equivalent, but equivalent polygons are not in general congruent.

They are not congruent and can never be in the actualized universe.

Some objects when thought of are congruent to our existing state of activity.

Word Value for congruent
Scrable

12

Words with friends

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