Meaning of Concordia | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A set of plotted points, appearing as a curve on a concordia diagram or isochron diagram, representing sample data from rock of the same age; the condition of being a member of said set (or on said curve).
   countable, uncountable
2. The goddess of harmony and concord. She is the Roman equivalent to Harmonia.
   Roman
3. A number of places in the United States:
4. A city, the county seat of Cloud County, Kansas.
5. An unincorporated community in Meade County, Kentucky.
6. A ghost town in Bolivar County, Mississippi.
7. A city in Lafayette County, Missouri.
8. A census-designated place in Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
9. A neighbourhood in north-east Portland, Oregon, named after Concordia University,
10. An unincorporated community in Nueces County, Texas.
11. Former name of Walburg, Texas.
12. A settlement on Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
13. An area on Saint John, United States Virgin Islands.
14. A town on Saint Martin, part of a Caribbean island that belongs to France.
15. A city and municipality in Sinaloa, Mexico.
16. A municipality in Olancho department, Honduras.
17. A town and municipality in Antioquia department, Colombia.
18. A town and municipality in Magdalena department, Colombia.
19. A department and city in Entre Ríos province, Argentina.
20. A town in the Northern Cape province, South Africa.
21. A locality in Barossa council area, South Australia.
22. A female given name from Latin.
23. 58 Concordia, a main belt asteroid.

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Examples

“Points above concordia indicate uranium loss and those below indicate uranium gain.”

“1994 [1988 Elsevier], H.-G. Attendorn, R. Bowen, Isotopes in the Earth Sciences, Chapman & Hall, page 131, Such lower intersections of resultant discordias with U-Th-Pb concordias are not significant in terms of geological time, merely changes which took place in the Th/U ratios or lead isotope ratios through the factors alluded to above.”

“The addition of U to a carbonate sample on concordia causes the point to move off concordia in the direction of the origin.[…]The patterns that develop in the ^{₂₃₁}Pa-^{₂₃₀}Th concordia diagrams are similar to the responses of Pa-Th concordias presented in Section 10.5a.”

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