equivalence

noun equivalences · æquivalence

1. uncountable The condition of being equivalent or essentially equal: the status of being interchangeable. His answer and yours share equivalence.
2. countable An act of equating two things; an assertion of equivalence. I disagree with his equivalence of his behavior with that of an overexcited teenager.
3. uncountable The relationship between two propositions that are either both true or both false.
4. countable An equivalence relation; ≡; ~.
5. countable, uncountable A Boolean operation that is TRUE when both input variables are TRUE or both input variables are FALSE, but otherwise FALSE; the XNOR function.
6. countable, uncountable A number in intersection theory. A positive-dimensional variety sometimes behaves formally as if it were a finite number of points; this number is its equivalence.
7. countable, uncountable 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.
8. countable, uncountable The state of two notes being separated by one octave or the similarity of two such notes.
9. countable, uncountable The degree to which a term or text in one language is semantically similar to its translated counterpart. Equivalence is important, but when translating poetry, you need to get across the feel and the emotion more than the exact semantic meaning.
10. countable, uncountable The principle that one long syllable is equal to two short ones.

Similar: equivalency

verb equivalences · equivalencing · equivalenced · æquivalence

1. transitive To be equivalent or equal to; to counterbalance. […] whether the transgression of Eve seducing, did not exceed that of Adam seduced, or whether the resistibility of his reason did not equivalence the facility of her seduction, we shall referre it unto the Schoolman.