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Concordance Factor
Concordance may refer to: * Agreement (linguistics), a form of cross-reference between different parts of a sentence or phrase * Bible concordance, an alphabetical listing of terms in the Bible * Concordant coastline, in geology, where beds, or layers, of differing rock types form ridges that run parallel to the coast * Concordant pair, in statistics * Concordance (publishing), a list of words used in a body of work, with their immediate contexts * Concordance (genetics), the presence of the same trait in both members of a pair of twins (or set of individuals) * Concordance (medicine), involvement of patients in decision-making to improve patient compliance with medical advice * Concordance of evidence, in law, science, history, etc. * Concordance system, in Swiss politics, inclusion of everyone, manifested by the presence of all major parties in the Federal Council * Concordance correlation coefficient, in statistics, a measurement of the agreement between two variables * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agreement (linguistics)
In linguistics, agreement or concord ( abbreviated ) occurs when a word changes form depending on the other words to which it relates. It is an instance of inflection, and usually involves making the value of some grammatical category (such as gender or person) "agree" between varied words or parts of the sentence. For example, in Standard English, one may say ''I am'' or ''he is'', but not "I is" or "he am". This is because English grammar requires that the verb and its subject agree in ''person''. The pronouns ''I'' and ''he'' are first and third person respectively, as are the verb forms ''am'' and ''is''. The verb form must be selected so that it has the same person as the subject in contrast to notional agreement, which is based on meaning. By category Agreement generally involves matching the value of some grammatical category between different constituents of a sentence (or sometimes between sentences, as in some cases where a pronoun is required to agree with its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bible Concordance
A Bible concordance is a Concordance (publishing), concordance, or verbal index, to the Bible. A simple form lists Biblical words alphabetically, with indications to enable the inquirer to find the passages of the Bible where the words occur. Concordances may be for the original languages of the Biblical books, or (more commonly) they are compiled for translations. Latin Friars of the Dominican order invented the verbal concordance of the Bible. As the basis of their work they used the text of the ''Vulgate'', the standard Bible of the Middle Ages in Western Europe. The first concordance, completed in 1230, was undertaken under the guidance of Cardinal Hugo de Saint-Cher (Hugo de Sancto Charo), assisted by fellow Dominican Order, Dominicans. It contained short quotations (see Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque municipale, p. 28) of the passages where a word was found. These were indicated by book and chapter (the division into chapters had recently been made by Stephen Langton) but not by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
