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Equilibrium vs Equation - What's the difference?

equilibrium | equation |

As nouns the difference between equilibrium and equation

is that equilibrium is balance, equilibrium while equation is equation (assertion).

equilibrium

English

Alternative forms

* equilibrium]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed. (dated)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change.
  • * 1999 , , Agent smith speech
  • Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus.
  • (physics) The state of a body at rest or in uniform motion in which the resultant of all forces on it is zero.
  • (chemistry) The state of a reaction in which the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are the same.
  • Mental balance.
  • Synonyms

    * (a condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced) balance, stability * (mental balance) sanity

    Antonyms

    * (a condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced) disequilibrium, imbalance, instability * (in physics) disequilibrium, non-equilibrium * (mental balance) insanity, instability, madness

    Hypernyms

    * (in physics) stasis

    Derived terms

    * disequilibrium * dynamic equilibrium * equilibrist * Nash equilibrium * neutral equilibrium * stable equilibrium * static equilibrium * unstable equilibrium

    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