congruency
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Origin of congruency
From the Latin word congruentia, dating back to 1485–95. See congruence, -cy
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Participants also displayed a higher sense of embodiment for the bionic tools when they had the opportunity to explore the virtual reality environment before undertaking the cross-modal congruency test.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2024
Next, the team used a test called the "cross-modal congruency task" to compare implicit or unconscious embodiment for the virtual hand and bionic tool.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2024
Love, she said in a 2017 interview with the website Shondaland, “requires integrity, that there be a congruency between what we think, say and do.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2021
Looking back, Danson can see a congruency in the roles he’s taken.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2018
For the congruency is the same: And yet if equall angles bee equall in base, they are not by and by equicrurall, as in the angles of the same section will appeare, as here.
From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William
Seems like it would be easy to find congruencies between the two, but note that Clippers guard Patrick Beverley coyly tweeted at Doncic during free agency last summer, sparking rumors he would join Dallas.
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2019
Here, it is possible to take advantage of new forms of data to explore congruencies and differences in their perspectives.
From Nature ● Sep. 20, 2016
But as very few memoirs do, they make me look inside my own experiences to find the emotional congruencies between my life and his.
From Slate ● Feb. 7, 2014
In taste, or the sense of proportions and congruencies, or the harmonious adaptations, he is perhaps the most defective writer extant.
From Biographical Essays by De Quincey, Thomas
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