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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Equivalence" Quotes from Famous Books

... old liquid are remixed; there is a complete identity. Thus the affinity of the water for the alcohol modifies the tension of the vapors which form or condense upon the free surface of the mixture. The two phenomena are closely connected by the law of equivalence. ...

— Scientific American Suppl. No. 299 • Various

... Hegel's saying that tragedy is not the conflict between right and wrong, but the conflict between right and right. The combat of Luther and Erasmus proceeded beyond the point at which our judgement is forced to halt and has to accept an equivalence, nay, a compatibility of affirmation and negation. And this fact, that they here were fighting with words and metaphors in a sphere beyond that of what may be known and expressed, was understood by Erasmus. Erasmus, the man of the fine shades, for whom ideas eternally blended ...

— Erasmus and the Age of Reformation • Johan Huizinga

... obstacle which confronts affirmation of our liberty comes from physical determinism. Positive science, we are told, presents the universe to us as an immense homogeneous transformation, maintaining an exact equivalence between departure and arrival. How can we possibly have after that the genuine creation which we require in ...

— A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson • Edouard le Roy

... considerations pertaining to sex and to the functions of reproduction exercise such an enormous influence upon one sex, and none at all upon the other. Since the discovery in 1827 of the ovule or female reproductive cell, there can be no question of the complete physiological equivalence and analogy between the essential organs of reproduction in the two sexes. The period of their development, the influence of such development on the entire nutrition of the body, the irregularities of nutritive or of cerebro-spinal action, that may be caused ...

— The Education of American Girls • Anna Callender Brackett

... wonderful things he really felt and saw. Here was one, who had a matter to present to his readers, to himself at least, in the first instance, so valuable, so real and definite, that his primary aim, as regards form or expression in his verse, would be but its exact equivalence to those data within. That he had this gift of transparency in language—the control of a style which did but obediently shift and shape itself to the mental motion, as a well-trained hand can follow on the tracing-paper the outline of an original drawing below it, ...

— Appreciations, with an Essay on Style • Walter Horatio Pater

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