concordance
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (grammar, obsolete) Agreement of words with one another; concord.Synonyms: agreement, concord
2. (chiefly biblical) 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.Examples: "c. 1857, Thomas Macaulay, "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance."
3. (computational linguistics) A list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.
4. (genetics) The probability that a pair of individuals will both have a certain characteristic (phenotypic trait) given that one of the pair has the characteristic.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To create a concordance from (a corpus).Examples: "Different from concordances of the Bible or classic works in the western tradition, which were basically complete concordances of a specific single book, the Chinese Lei Shu usually concordanced miscellaneous books."
Definition source: Wiktionary