Equate vs Equivalence - What's the difference?
equate | equivalence |
(uncountable) The condition of being equivalent or essentially equal.
(countable, mathematics) An equivalence relation;
(uncountable, logic) The relationship between two propositions that are either both true or both false.
(chemistry) 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.
a Boolean operation that is TRUE when both input variables are TRUE but otherwise FALSE; the XNOR function.
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.
To be equivalent or equal to; to counterbalance.
As a verb equate
is to consider equal, to state as being equivalent.As a noun equivalence is
equivalence.equivalence
English
(wikipedia equivalence)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(equivalenc)- (Sir Thomas Browne)