equivalence
The condition of being equivalent or essentially equal: the status of being…The condition of being equivalent or essentially equal: the status of being interchangeable.
» The tilde is used in math to denote equivalence.
Meaning
10 senses(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
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.
(uncountable)The relationship between two propositions that are either both true or both false.
Äquivalenz
эквивалентностьekvivalentnostʹ
(countable)An equivalence relation; ≡; ~.
Äquivalenz
тождествоtoždestvo
(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.
(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.
(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.
(countable, uncountable)The state of two notes being separated by one octave or the similarity of two such notes.
(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.
(countable, uncountable)The principle that one long syllable is equal to two short ones.
Examples
4 sentencesThe tilde is used in math to denote equivalence.
What does translation equivalence involve?
ruЧто включает в себя эквивалентный перевод?
Semantic equivalence is protean as well as fuzzy: what hoi polloi find equivalent may to cognoscenti be quite distinct.
There are words in Portuguese that don't have translation or equivalence in other languages like "açaí", "samba" or "guaraná".
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 2
Origin
From French équivalence, from Medieval Latin aequivalentia.From French équivalence, from Medieval Latin aequivalentia.
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Forms
plural: equivalences| Singular | equivalence |
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Synonyms
14 synonyms- a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced:equalityequationpar
- qualities that are comparable:comparisoncomparecomparability
Antonyms
3 antonymsWord family
20 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable