The difference between Agreement and Concordance

When used as nouns, agreement means an understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct, whereas concordance means agreement.

check bellow for the other definitions of Agreement and Concordance

  1. Agreement as a noun (countable):

    An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.

    Examples:

    "to enter an agreement; the UK and US negotiators nearing agreement; he nodded his agreement."

  2. Agreement as a noun (uncountable):

    A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.

    Examples:

    "The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity."

  3. Agreement as a noun (uncountable, legal):

    A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.

  4. Agreement as a noun (uncountable, linguistics, grammar):

    Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.

  5. Agreement as a noun (obsolete, chiefly, _, in the plural):

    An agreeable quality.

  1. Concordance as a noun:

    Agreement; accordance; consonance.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: accordance agreement consonance"

  2. Concordance as a noun (grammar, obsolete):

    Agreement of words with one another; concord.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: agreement concord"

  3. Concordance as a noun:

    An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place.

  4. Concordance as a noun (computational linguistics):

    A list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.

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