agreement

noun
/əˈɡɹiːmənt/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Old French a- Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥Htós Proto-Italic *gʷrātos Latin grātus Latin grātumder. Old French gré Old French agreer Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-məntom Latin -mentum Old French -ment Old French agrementbor. Middle English agrement English agreement From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement. Doublet of agrément. Morphologically agree + -ment.

  1. derived from agrement
  2. inherited from agrement

Definitions

  1. An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.

    • to enter an agreement
    • The UK and US negotiators were nearing agreement.
    • He nodded his agreement.
  2. A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion

    A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.

    • The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.
  3. A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.

  4. + 2 more definitions
    1. Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or…

      Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.

    2. An agreeable quality.

      • Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at agreement. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at agreement. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at agreement

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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