equivalence

plural equivalences · alternative obsolete æquivalence

1. uncountableThe condition of being equivalent or essentially equal: the status of being interchangeable.

   His answer and yours share equivalence.

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   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 · Antonyms: inequation, inequivalence

   1. countableAn act of equating two things; an assertion of equivalence.

      I disagree with his equivalence of his behavior with that of an overexcited teenager.

      Synonyms: equatedness, equivalency, equality, parity, sameness, comparability, correlation, parallelism · Antonyms: inequation, inequivalence

2. uncountablehuman sciencesThe relationship between two propositions that are either both true or both false.
3. countablemathematicsAn equivalence relation; ≡; ~.
4. countableuncountablemathematicsA Boolean operation that is TRUE when both input variables are TRUE or both input variables are FALSE, but otherwise FALSE; the XNOR function.
5. countableuncountablegeometryA 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.
6. countableuncountablechemistryThe 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.
7. countableuncountableentertainmentThe state of two notes being separated by one octave or the similarity of two such notes.
8. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe 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.

9. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe principle that one long syllable is equal to two short ones.

present singular third person equivalences · participle present equivalencing · participle past equivalenced · past equivalenced · alternative obsolete æquivalence

1. transitiveTo 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

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   […] 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 to be equivalenced by any compensation.

   1647, Tobie Matthew, A Missive of Consolation sent from Flanders, to the Catholikes of England, Louvain, page 53