consilience

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (countable, uncountable) The concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different data sets.
2. (countable, uncountable) The agreement, co-operation, or overlap of academic disciplines.

Sinonieme

conformability

congruity

rapport

Vertalings

consiliência

consentiment

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/kənˈsɪ.li.əns/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Latin con- (prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects) + saliō (“to bound, jump, leap”) (modelled after resiliēns (“rebounding”)) + -ence, influenced by concurrent. Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1840 in his book The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences.