agreement

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   compatibility of observations

   there was no agreement between theory and measurement

2. 2
   noun

   the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises

   they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business

3. 3
   noun

   harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters

   the two parties were in agreement

4. 4
   noun

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

   to enter an agreement

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   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.

   Having clarified what we mean by ‘Personʼ and ‘Numberʼ, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement. More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must ‘agreeʼ with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject.

7. 7
   noun

   An agreeable quality.

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

8. 8
   noun

   the thing arranged or agreed to

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.