equivalence

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  1. noun The state or condition of being equivalent; equality.
  2. noun Mathematics An equivalence relation.
  3. noun Logic The relationship that holds for two propositions that are either both true or both false, so that the affirmation of one and the denial of the other results in contradiction.

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  • But ambivalence is not the same as moral equivalence, and holy war, no matter who is waging it, makes my flesh crawl. —  Articles
  • There is just something wrong at Kraft - private label equivalence, lack of innovation, the need for smarter marketing, a focus on the Sales function. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • For the purposes of integration, this equivalence is quite harmless, but this convention does mean that we can no longer evaluate a function f in at a single point x if that point x has zero measure. —  What's new
  • These operations respect almost everywhere equivalence, and so becomes a (complex) vector space. —  What's new
  • Ricardian equivalence is the theory that if the government budget deficit increases then people will increase their savings by an equal amount in order to help them pay for the higher future tax bills. —  Stefan Karlsson's blog
 

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  1. = French équivalence = Spanish Portuguese equivalencia = Italian equivalenza, from Middle Latin æquivalentia, from Late Latin æquivalen(t-)s, equivalent: see equivalent.
  2. from equivalence, n.
 

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/əˈkwɪvələns/
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