equivalence
/ɪˈkwɪv.ə.ləns/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.17 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The condition of being equivalent or essentially equal: the status of being interchangeable.
Uncountable
noun
The condition of being equivalent or essentially equal: the status of being interchangeable.
Countable
noun
A Boolean operation that is TRUE when both input variables are TRUE or both input variables are FALSE, but otherwise FALSE; the XNOR function.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "I disagree with his equivalence of his behavior with that of an overexcited teenager."
- "Equivalence is important, but when translating poetry, you need to get across the feel and the emotion more than the exact semantic meaning."
- "[…] 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."
- "[…] 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."
Etymology
From French équivalence, from Medieval Latin aequivalentia.
Word Breakdown
- Root: aequivalentia
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪˈkwɪv.ə.ləns/
- British English: /ɪˈkwɪv.ə.ləns/