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harmony
English
Etymology
First attested in 1602. From Middle English armonye, from Old French harmonie/armonie, from Latin harmonia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (harmonía, “joint, union, agreement, concord of sounds”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?h??m?ni/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h??m?ni/
- Homophone: hominy (god-guard merger and weak vowel merger)
Noun
harmony (countable and uncountable, plural harmonies)
- Agreement or accord.
- December 4 2010, Evan Thomas, "Why It’s Time to Worry", in Newsweekk
- America's social harmony has depended at least to some degree on economic growth. It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead.
- December 4 2010, Evan Thomas, "Why It’s Time to Worry", in Newsweekk
- A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.
- (music) The academic study of chords.
- (music) Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
- (music) The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
- A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.
- a harmony of the Gospels
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Further reading
- harmony in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- harmony in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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compliance
English
Etymology
comply +? -ance
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?m?pla??ns/
- Rhymes: -a??ns
Noun
compliance (countable and uncountable, plural compliances)
- An act of complying.
- (uncountable) The state of being compliant.
- (uncountable) The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.
- (mechanics) A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility
- (medicine) The accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan
- (uncountable, business) The department of a business that ensures all government regulations are complied with.
Synonyms
- compliancy
Antonyms
- (act of complying): violation
Related terms
- compliant
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See also
- conformance
Portuguese
Noun
compliance m (uncountable)
- (business) compliance (the department of a business that ensures government regulations are complied with)
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