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Equation vs Equationlike - What's the difference?

equation | equationlike |

As a noun equation

is equation (assertion).

As an adjective equationlike is

resembling or characteristic of an equation.

equation

English

(wikipedia equation)

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (senseid)(mathematics) An assertion that two expressions are equal, expressed by writing the two expressions separated by an equal sign; from which one is to determine a particular quantity.
  • (astronomy) A small correction to observed values to remove the effects of systematic errors in an observation.

    • Derived terms

    (Derived terms) * algebraic equation * Arrhenius equation * chemical equation * differential equation * Diophantine equation * Drake equation * integral equation * Kepler's equation * Lagrange's equations * linear equation * Navier-Stokes equation * parametric equation * partial differential equation * Pell's equation * personal equation * polynomial equation * quadratic equation * * Van der Waals equation * wave equation

    Related terms

    * equality * equational * identity * inequation * inequality

    equationlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling or characteristic of an equation.
  • * 2001 , Barbara M Byrne, Structural equation modeling with AMOS
    • Thus, we know that the regression functions symbolized in the model shown in Fig. 1.1 can be summarized in terms of six separate equationlike representations of linear dependencies as follows...