Definitions

1. noun

A computer program that finds and displays the contexts in which words or phrases are used in a body of text, especially to assist in language translation or corpus linguistics.

“The linguist used a concordancer to analyze the frequency of verb usage in the novel.”

2. verb

To use a concordancer to search for and display the contexts in which words or phrases are used in a body of text.

“She concordanced the corpus to identify patterns in language usage.”