Definition of "concordance" [con•cord•ance]

• Agreement; concord. (noun)
• An alphabetical index of all the words in a text or corpus of texts, showing every contextual occurrence of a word: a concordance of Shakespeare's works. (noun)
• Genetics The presence of a given trait in both members of a pair of twins. (noun)

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• "Notice how my work is being presented as being in concordance with ID when Meyer knows very well where I stand on this issue."
• "There is a 4th digit in the concordance, which is usually 0."
• "Junta CM, Mello SS, Garcia PS, Rassi DM, et al. (2007) Profiling meta-analysis reveals primarily gene coexpression concordance between systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis."