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Noun: consilience
  1. Agreement or convergence of evidence from different sources or disciplines
    "The consilience of historical and archaeological data supported the theory"
     
  2. (logic) the concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different data sets
    "The consilience of results from various experiments strengthened their hypothesis"

Derived forms: consiliences

Encyclopedia: Consilience