11 Sep 2007 @ 12:16
HARMONIOUS DIVERSITY
HARMONY
har·mo·ny (har'ma-ne)
n., pl. -nies.
1. Agreement in feeling or opinion; accord: live in harmony.
2. A pleasing combination of elements in a whole: color harmony; the order and harmony of the universe. See synonyms at proportion.
3. Music.
1. The study of the structure, progression, and relation of chords.
2. Simultaneous combination of notes in a chord.
3. The structure of a work or passage as considered from the point of view of its chordal characteristics and relationships.
4. A combination of sounds considered pleasing to the ear.
4. A collation of parallel passages, especially from the Gospels, with a commentary demonstrating their consonance and explaining their discrepancies.
[Middle English armonie, from Old French, from Latin harmonia, from Greek harmoniā, articulation, agreement, harmony, from harmos, joint.]
DIVERSITY
di·ver·si·ty (di-vur' si-te, di-)
n., pl. -ties.
1.
1. The fact or quality of being diverse; difference.
2. A point or respect in which things differ.
2. Variety or multiformity: “Charles Darwin saw in the diversity of species the principles of evolution that operated to generate the species: variation, competition and selection” (Scientific American).
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