congruence UK /ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹʊ.əns/US /ˈkɑŋ.ɡɹu.əns/ noun6 •The quality of agreeing or corresponding; being suitable and appropriate. •A well-adjusted state or condition in which people are not lying to themselves or in denial. •The quality of being isometric — roughly, the same measure and shape. •A relation between two numbers indicating they give the same remainder when divided by some given number. •Any equivalence relation defined on an algebraic structure which is preserved by operations defined by the structure. •Matrix similarity by an orthogonal matrix. formscongruences