connascence
Meanings
noun
- The birth of two or more things at the same time; A simultaneous coming into being.
- The state of being born into the same family, race, or group; a commonality of heritage or birthright.
- The act of growing or developing together.
- A relationship between two or more elements of software in which changing one necessitates changing the others in order to maintain overall correctness; a metric for such a relationship.
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Etymology
From con- + nascence. In the software engineering sense introduced by Meilir Page-Jones.
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