A term coined by Walt Freitag for play which merges two or more GNS modes. As he puts it: "A congruent decision is a decision made by a participant (GM or player) during play that cannot, on the basis of the visible behavior resulting from the decision, be categorized as belonging to a specific mode of decision-making enumerated by the underlying model. In the context of the GNS model there are exactly four possible congruencies, representing the four combinations of two or more modes for which a decision may be ambiguous." Others have disagreed over whether sustained congruent play is possible. References: GNS and "Congruency"
The relationship between two geometric shapes having the same size and shape ( congruent shapes)
The relationship between two objects that have exactly the same size and shape.
In cladistics, congruent features are shared features whose distribution among organisms fully corresponds to that of one or more other shared features, and so supports the same cladistic grouping. The preferred cladogram is the one that shows the maximum congruence between all the features involved.
The degree of match between two codes, e.g., a person and an occupation. A Realistic person in a Realistic occupation is very congruent, whereas a Realistic person in a Social occupation is incongruent. Degrees of congruence are defined according to the hexagonal model in which Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional types (in that order) are at the six points of the hexagon. High levels of congruence are indicative of a person who will maintain the code of the first aspiration in the future.
corresponding or coinciding as in a triangle with like sides/the sides are congruent
(adj. congruent) Agreement, as between characters and a tree, or between the topologies (shapes) of two trees, e.g. derived from different data sets, such as molecular and morphological. Some authors like to make separate phylogeny estimates from different data sets, and then test their congruence (cf. total evidence).
the property of characters that support the same cladogram. See also Compatible characters.
The state of having the same size and shape.
In geometry, two sets are called congruent if one can be transformed into the other by an isometry, i.e., a combination of translations, rotations and reflections. In less formal language, two sets are congruent if they have the same shape and size, but are in different positions (for instance one may be rotated, flipped, or simply moved).