consilience
consilience is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 39 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence. The consilience of inductions takes place when one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class. Whewell.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- agree
- agreement
- aid
- alliance
- along
- assent
- cause
- coagency
- coincide
- coincidence
- common
- concert
- concur
- concurrence
- concurrent
- concurring
- conduce
- consent
- conspire
- contribute
- cooperate
- cooperation
- hand
- hang
- help
- join
- keep
- make
- mind
- one
- parallel
- partnership
- pull
- run
- synergy
- together
- union
- unite
- with
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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