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Lack of equality
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inequality
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. lack of equality; "the growing inequality between rich and poor" [ant: equality ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An unfair, not equal, state.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "difference of rank or dignity," from Old French inequalité (14c.) and directly from Medieval Latin inaequalitas , from Latin inaequalis "unequal," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + aequalis "equal" (see equal ).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES gender bias/inequality/discrimination (= when one gender is treated unfairly ) ▪ Her research investigates gender bias in the classroom. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE economic ▪ Markets intensify economic inequality ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Not to be confused with Inequation . "Less than" and "Greater than" redirect here. For the use of the "<" and ">" signs as punctuation, see Bracket . For the UK insurance brand "More Th>n", see More Than (company) . In mathematics , an inequality is a relation ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inequality \In`e*qual"i*ty\, n.; pl. Inequalities . [L. inaequalitas.] The quality of being unequal; difference, or lack of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; disproportion; unevenness; disparity; diversity; as, an inequality in size, stature, ...
Usage examples of inequality.
Whatever be the inequality in the hardness of the materials of which the rock consists, even in the case of pudding-stone, the surface is abraded so evenly as to leave the impression that a rigid rasp has moved over all the undulations of the land, advancing in one and the same direction and levelling all before it.
To what but a cultivation of the mechanical arts in a degree disproportioned to the presence of the creative faculty, which is the basis of all knowledge, is to be attributed the abuse of all invention for abridging and combining labour, to the exasperation of the inequality of mankind?
The advocate of equal rights is preoccupied by these opportunities for the abusive exercise of power, because from his point of view rights exercised in the interest of inequality have ceased to be righteous.
Having thus learned that equality in everything was the rule of the house, I went to work like the others and began to eat the soup out of the common dish, and if I did not complain of the rapidity with which my companions made it disappear, I could not help wondering at such inequality being allowed.
The port was open before them, and they glanced by church, palace, barge, mystick, and felucca, without the slightest inequality in their relative speed.
We there discoursed the Circulation of the Blood, the Valves in the Veins, the Copernican Hypothesis, the Nature of Comets, the new Stars, the Attendants on Jupiter, the Oval shape of Saturn, the inequalities and Selenography of the Moon .
This inequality depends on the centrifugal force of rotation, and on the spheroidal figure of the earth due to that rotation.
There was only one difficulty, and that was inequality, Don Clavijo being an impoverished knight and Princess Antonomasia the heiress, as I have said, to the kingdom.
Three recent attacks on inequalities in the effective voting power of persons residing in different geographical areas were likewise unsuccessful.
As the leaves in the whole family of the Acanthaceae stand either opposite one another or in whorls, and as these are of equal size, the great inequality between the first two leaves is a singular fact.
The same sort of computer program that plays checkers can also be made to solve theorems on inequalities such as that pictured here, where one is asked to prove that the angle ACE is less than ABE.
I hope and believe that if both the nation and the States would, in good faith, in their respective spheres do what they could in the way of improvements, what of inequality might be produced in one place might be compensated in another, and the sum of the whole might not be very unequal.
I saw the fingers and toes grasp the corners of the stones, worn clear of the mortar by the stress of years, and by thus using every projection and inequality move downwards with considerable speed, just as a lizard moves along a wall.
This kind of critique of feminism originated in the work of African-American critics who pointed out that academic feminism had reproduced the structures of patriarchal inequality within itself by excluding the voices and experiences of black women.
But this equality does not mean that one exchanges utility for utility in identical portions: one exchanges inequalities, which means that on both sides - and despite the fact that each element traded has an intrinsic utility - more value is acquired than was originally possessed.