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noun

Equivalence n.

The condition of being equivalent or equal; equality of worth, value, signification, or force; as, an equivalence of definitions.

Equal power or force; equivalent amount.

(Chem.)

(a)

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. See Valence.

(b)

The degree of combining power as determined by relative weight. See Equivalent, n., 2. (R.)

verb

Equivalence v. t. To be equivalent or equal to; to counterbalance. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Equivalence'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... speech itself, is that each element (letter or written word) in the system corresponds to a specific element (sound or sound-group or spoken word) in the primary system. Written language is thus a point-to-point equivalence, to borrow a mathematical phrase, to its spoken counterpart. The written forms are secondary symbols of the spoken ones—symbols of symbols—yet so close is the correspondence that they may, not only in theory but in the actual practice ...

— Language - An Introduction to the Study of Speech • Edward Sapir

... is male descent, and, as in the S. Arunta, the classes are themselves divided; for equivalence the numbers of the eight-class system are arranged (Nor. Tr. 123), 1, 4; 3, ...

— Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia • Northcote W. Thomas

... sandstones and grits, which occupy much the same place in the general series as the millstone grit of England;" and in calling this group, as he does, the "representative of the millstone grit," Sir R. Murchison clearly shows that he thinks likeness of mineral composition some evidence of equivalence in time, even at that great distance. Nay, on the flanks of the Andes and in the United States, such similarities are looked for, and considered as significant of certain ages. Not that Sir R. Murchison contends ...

— Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I • Herbert Spencer

... thought of a less direct kind, one may be traced between an utterance of Hamlet's and a number of Montaigne's sayings on the power of imagination and the possible equivalence of dream life and waking life. In his first dialogue with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, where we have already noted an echo of Montaigne, ...

— Montaigne and Shakspere • John M. Robertson

... the equivalence of mass and energy, Einstein proved that the energy in any particle of matter is equal to its mass or weight multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. The release of the atomic energies is brought about through the annihilation of the material particles. The ...

— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda

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