The difference between Agreement and Harmony

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

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  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. Harmony as a noun:

    Agreement or accord.

  2. Harmony as a noun:

    A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.

  3. Harmony as a noun (music):

    The academic study of chords.

  4. Harmony as a noun (music):

    Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.

  5. Harmony as a noun (music):

    The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.

  6. Harmony as a noun:

    A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.

    Examples:

    "a harmony of the Gospels"

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