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Equivalence

noun

A state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced. Synonyms: equality, equation, par.

Essential equality and interchangeability.

Qualities that are comparable. Synonyms: comparability, compare, comparison. "Beyond compare"

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"Equivalence" Quotes from Famous Books

... that a certain fossil belonged to the old red sandstone, below which no coal is found. Numerous attempts have been made to construct electromagnetic engines, in the hope of superseding steam; but had those who supplied the money understood the general law of the correlation and equivalence of forces, they might have had better balances at their bankers. Daily are men induced to aid in carrying out inventions which a mere tyro in science could show to be futile. Scarcely a locality but has its history of fortunes thrown away ...

— Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects - Everyman's Library • Herbert Spencer

... dispute, as we have seen in earlier chapters in this volume. When is one pleasure twice as great as another? How can we know that three pleasures counterbalance a pain? Is it by the mere fact that we will as we do, in a given instance? Then how prove that we will as we do, because of the equivalence of the pleasure ...

— A Handbook of Ethical Theory • George Stuart Fullerton

... which he has no immediate use, brings it to add to this store, receiving from the Government, in exchange, an order either for the return of the thing itself, or of its equivalent in other things, such as he may choose out of the store, at any time when he needs them. The question of equivalence itself (how much wine a man is to receive in return for so much corn, or how much coal in return for so much iron) is a quite separate one, which we will examine presently. For the time, let it be assumed that this equivalence has been determined, and that the Government order, in exchange for ...

— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin

Words linked to "Equivalence" : similitude, alikeness, position, tie, equivalent, egality, nonequivalence, parity, egalite, status, likeness