equivalence
UK/ɪˈkwɪv.ə.ləns/
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New Zealand/əˈkwəv.ə.ləns/
equivalence noun: the condition of being equivalent or essentially equal: the status of being interchangeable.
Noun
equivalence (countable and uncountable, plural equivalences)
- The condition of being equivalent or essentially equal: the status of being interchangeable.
- His answer and yours share equivalence.
- Cow's milk and soy milk have a lot of differences, but their equivalence is sufficient for this recipe.
- Synonyms:
- equatedness, equivalency, equality, parity, sameness, comparability, correlation, parallelism, resemblance, similitude
- Antonyms:
- inequation, inequivalence
- An act of equating two things; an assertion of equivalence.
- I disagree with his equivalence of his behavior with that of an overexcited teenager.
- The relationship between two propositions that are either both true or both false.
- An equivalence relation; ≡; ~.
- A Boolean operation that is TRUE when both input variables are TRUE or both input variables are FALSE, but otherwise FALSE; the XNOR function.
- A number in intersection theory. A positive-dimensional variety sometimes behaves formally as if it were a finite number of points; this number is its equivalence.
- The quantity of the combining power of an atom, expressed in hydrogen units; the number of hydrogen atoms can combine with, or be exchanged for; valency.
- The state of two notes being separated by one octave or the similarity of two such notes.
- The degree to which a term or text in one language is semantically similar to its translated counterpart.
- Equivalence is important, but when translating poetry, you need to get across the feel and the emotion more than the exact semantic meaning.
- The principle that one long syllable is equal to two short ones.
Verb
equivalence (third-person singular simple present equivalences, present participle equivalencing, simple past and past participle equivalenced)
- To be equivalent or equal to; to counterbalance.
- […] whether the transgression of Eve seducing, did not exceed that of Adam seduced, or whether the resistibility of his reason did not equivalence the facility of her seduction, we shall referre it unto the Schoolman.1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, p. 25
- […] every one being struck with wonder at the vertue and patience of the sufferers, began to think that worthy the enquiring into, which men thought so much better worth then their lives; and these reflections converted more then the best verball expressions, to such auditors, as thought life not...1647, Tobie Matthew, A Missive of Consolation sent from Flanders, to the Catholikes of England, Louvain, page 53
equivalence meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
equivalence in Hindi
- condition of being equivalent
- तुल्यता tulyatā
- degree to which a term or text is similar
- समानार्थकता samānārthaktā, पर्यायत्व paryāyatva
equivalence in Tamil
- சமவலுத்தன்மை, சமானம், சமான உறவு, சமபலம்
equivalence in Bengali
- সমতুল্যতা
equivalence in Malayalam
- sameness, equality, interchangeability
- തുല്യത, സരൂപത, സമാനത, സമത്വം, സമത, സാരൂപ്യം
More languagesFewer languages
- equivalence in Sanskrit
- सम्भव sambhava
- equivalence in Nepali
- समकक्षता
- equivalence in Malay
- persamaan
Examples of equivalence in a sentence
- Another unsolicited maths take: talking about quotients in terms of "equivalence classes" or cosets is really unnatural.
- We all want tap water always to be potable water, but ensuring this equivalence takes work and commitment.
- A direct limit has “canonical functions” which map each element of the disjoint union to its equivalence class.
Synonyms of equivalence
- equatedness
- equivalency
- equality
- parity
- sameness
- comparability
- correlation
- parallelism
- resemblance
- similitude
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Antonyms
Forms of equivalence
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | equivalences |
| alternative form (obsolete) | æquivalence |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | equivalences |
| present participle | equivalencing |
| past participle | equivalenced |
| past | equivalenced |
Origin of equivalence
From French équivalence, from Medieval Latin aequivalentia.
Words formed from equivalence
- autoequivalence
- bioequivalence
- dynamic equivalence
- elementary equivalence
- equivalence class
- equivalence gate
- equivalence of categories
- equivalence principle
- equivalence relation
- false equivalence
- formal equivalence
- functional equivalence
- genomic equivalence
- inequivalence
- Knuth equivalence
- Morita equivalence
- nonequivalence
- photoequivalence
- phytoequivalence
- quasiequivalence
- Ricardian equivalence
- ringer equivalence number
- row-equivalence
- strong equivalence principle
Phrases with equivalence
Questions about equivalence
- What does equivalence mean?
- Equivalence means the condition of being equivalent or essentially equal: the status of being interchangeable.
- What is equivalence in Hindi?
- Equivalence in Hindi is तुल्यता (tulyatā), समानार्थकता (samānārthaktā), पर्यायत्व (paryāyatva). See Equivalence meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is equivalence?
- Equivalence can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce equivalence?
- Equivalence is pronounced /ɪˈkwɪv.ə.ləns/ (UK).
- What is the plural of equivalence?
- The plural of equivalence is equivalences.
Words near equivalence in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: equivalence (page history and authors); equivalence (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); equivalence (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); equivalence (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); सम्भव (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); equivalence (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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