What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Equipoise vs Equity - What's the difference?

equipoise | equity |

As a proper noun equipoise

is (pharmaceutical drug|trademark) market name for the anabolic steroid boldenone undecylenate.

As a noun equity is

value of some business.

equipoise

English

(wikipedia equipoise)

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(-)
  • A state of balance; equilibrium.
  • * 1794 , ,
    • Government was unnerved, confounded, and in a manner suspended. Its equipoise was totally gone.
  • * 1869 , , Ch. IV,
    • “An easy evasion”, retorted the excited bride, who had lost her mental equipoise .
  • * 1878 , , Ch. 6,
    • The words were not without emotion, and retained their level tone as if by a careful equipoise between imminent extremes.
  • * 1927–29', ,
    • And I saw him thus absorbed in godly pursuits in the midst of business, not once or twice, but very often. I never saw him lose his state of equipoise .
  • A counterbalance.
  • * 1911 , ,
    • The cone’s not fixed, it’s hung by a chain from a lever, and balanced by an equipoise .

    Verb

  • To act or make to act as an equipoise.
  • To cause to be or stay in equipoise.

    • equity

    English

    (wikipedia equity)

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

  • value of some business.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
  • (legal) A legal that deals with remedies other than (l) relief, such as injunctions, divorces and similar actions.
  • * Macaulay
    • Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application.
  • (legal) of property minus liens or other (l).
  • (legal) An equitable claim; an equity of redemption.
    • an equity''' to a settlement, or wife's '''equity , etc.
  • * Kent
    • I consider the wife's equity to be too well settled to be shaken.
  • (accounting) Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from (l).
  • Justice, impartiality or fairness.
  • * Tillotson
    • Christianity secures both the private interests of men and the public peace, enforcing all justice and equity .

    References

    *