[mass noun]agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions 一致;协调 consonance between conservation measures and existing agricultural practice. 保存方法和现有农业之间的一致性。 a constitution in consonance with the people's customs. 符合人们习惯的法规。 ■the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity (chiefly as used in prosody) (主要用于诗体中的)辅音韵 ■(Music)the combination of notes which are in harmony with each other due to the relationship between their frequencies (乐)协和音
语源
late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin consonantia, from consonant- 'sounding together', from the verb consonare (see consonant)