concordancing

/K AA1 N K AO1 R D AH0 N S IH0 NG/
noun
  1. 1

    Agreement; accordance; consonance.

  2. 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.

  3. 3

    (computational linguistics) A list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.

  4. 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.

  5. 5

    (grammar, obsolete) Agreement of words with one another; concord.

verb
  1. 1

    (transitive) To create a concordance from (a corpus).