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Equate vs Equivalence - What's the difference?

equate | equivalence |

As a verb equate

is to consider equal, to state as being equivalent.

As a noun equivalence is

equivalence.

equate

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Verb

  • To consider equal, to state as being equivalent.
  • equivalence

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
  • Verb

    (equivalenc)
  • To be equivalent or equal to; to counterbalance.
  • (Sir Thomas Browne)