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Essential equality and interchangeability
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equivalence
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Word definitions for equivalence in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Equivalence \E*quiv"a*lence\, v. t. To be equivalent or equal to; to counterbalance. [R.] --Sir T. Browne.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Equivalence is a term applied by the Uruguay Round Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures . WTO Member countries shall accord acceptance to the Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures of other countries (even if those measures ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced; "on a par with the best" [syn: equality , equation , par ] essential equality and interchangeability [ant: nonequivalence ] qualities that are comparable; "no comparison between the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from French équivalence , from Medieval Latin aequivalentia , from Late Latin aequivalentem "equivalent" (see equivalent ). Related: Equivalency (1530s).
Usage examples of equivalence.
Outside, in the warehouse of time, the adaptor I look for must bridge the paradoxical equivalence of message and notch, caprice and complexity, theme and variation.
The doctrines of the convertibility or specific equivalence of the various forms of force, and of its conservation, which is its logical consequence, are very generally accepted, as I believe, at the present time, among physicists.
Even the most ardent scientific materialists acknowledge that we do not presently know enough about the intricate functioning of the brain to establish the equivalence of specific, subjective mental processes with specific, objective brain processes.
In any normalcy of combat, assuming the equivalence of the units, the comparability of weaponry, the competence of the commanders, and such, Ar would be doomed.
Tibet had something on her mind she wanted to express, something more vital than chocolate ice cream-but she needed, if not a pretext, an equivalence.
A block of it sat on the table, and she passed it over to Art and went back to arguing with her friend, while Coyote bartered on with another man, talking about teeter-totters and pots, kilograms and calories, equivalence and overburden, cubic meters per second and picobars, haggling expertly and getting a lot of laughs from the people listening.
That's what the equivalence principle is telling us, that acceleration and gravity can cancel out, if they're set up to be equal and opposite.
They thought the mine shafts there would be a good place to establish a new lower boundary for the equivalence principle.
Its change of course must be executed by means of equivalences and locational surrogates, not by applications of actual thermodynamic thrust along some particular spatial vector.
III to be able to include a note 'On translation' in which the matter of equivalences and my uses may be made clearly.
The principle of equivalence must hi this case apply, and a rigorous requital is necessary.
To appreciate its importance, we need only imagine Einstein trying to formulate general relativity without having had the happy thought he experienced in the Bern patent office in 1907 that led him to the principle of equivalence.
Half a dozen devices on the ship, including all its positional and navigation systems, could be explained very well in one simple theory-// Aybee were willing to abandon the principle of equivalence.
This is a new Principle of Equivalence, a new symmetry between observers.
The logical equivalence of Newton's laws and the principle of least action is a mathematical theorem.