Accordance
[ə'kɔːd(ə)ns] or [ə'kɔrdns]
Definition
(noun.) the act of granting rights; 'the accordance to Canada of rights of access'.
Checked by Bianca--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Agreement; harmony; conformity.
Checked by Genevieve
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Accord, concord, agreement, concurrence, concordance, conformity, conformation, harmony, unison, unanimity.
Editor: Woodrow
Examples
- Page in accordance with his subsequent patent of 1854, drew a train of cars from Washington to Bladensburg at a rate of nineteen miles an hour. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I now ask an interview, in accordance with the offer contained in your letter of yesterday, for that purpose. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On August 12, having directed the telescope in accordance with Adams's instructions he again noted the same heavenly body, as a star. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- You may learn to paint in strict accordance with the rules of art. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The teaching of history, as we are unfolding it in this book, is strictly in accordance with this teaching of Buddha. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I now request an interview in accordance with the offer contained in your letter of yesterday for that purpose. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Then that part of the soul which has an opinion contrary to measure is not the same with that which has an opinion in accordance with measure? Plato. The Republic.
- Its principle depends upon the variable resistance of carbon in accordance with the degree of pressure to which it is subjected. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Hence, in accordance with the principles inculcated in this volume, these forms will not have been liable to much modification. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In accordance with the suggestions of Histi?us the Scythians rode off in search of the Persians, and so left the Greeks safe in either event. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In accordance with his instructions I dropped to my hands and knees once more and crawled from the Presence. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The disguises the party had assumed were in accordance with the hints of Tom Loker. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Before changing his course, he always needed to shape his motives and bring them into accordance with his habitual standard. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A motor constructed in accordance with Section 309 would be of little value in practical everyday affairs; its armature rotates too slowly and with too little force. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
Editor: Solomon