Meaning

10 senses
  1. (uncountable)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.

    Gleichwertigkeit

    эквивалентностьekvivalentnostʹ

    a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced

  2. The condition of being equivalent or essentially equal: the status of being interchangeable.

    (countable)An act of equating two things; an assertion of equivalence.

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

  3. (uncountable)The relationship between two propositions that are either both true or both false.

    Äquivalenz

    эквивалентностьekvivalentnostʹ

  4. (countable)An equivalence relation; ≡; ~.

    Äquivalenz

    тождествоtoždestvo

  5. (countable, uncountable)A Boolean operation that is TRUE when both input variables are TRUE or both input variables are FALSE, but otherwise FALSE; the XNOR function.

  6. (countable, uncountable)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.

  7. (countable, uncountable)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.

  8. (countable, uncountable)The state of two notes being separated by one octave or the similarity of two such notes.

  9. (countable, uncountable)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.

  10. (countable, uncountable)The principle that one long syllable is equal to two short ones.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. The tilde is used in math to denote equivalence.

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  2. What does translation equivalence involve?

    ruЧто включает в себя эквивалентный перевод?

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  3. Semantic equivalence is protean as well as fuzzy: what hoi polloi find equivalent may to cognoscenti be quite distinct.

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  4. There are words in Portuguese that don't have translation or equivalence in other languages like "açaí", "samba" or "guaraná".

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
condition of being equivalent:
equivalence relation:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
condition of being equivalent:
relationship between two propositions:

Origin

From French équivalence, from Medieval Latin aequivalentia.

From French équivalence, from Medieval Latin aequivalentia.

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