Usually means: Equality in value, function, meaning.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. equivalence: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. equivalence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. equivalence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. equivalence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. equivalence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Equivalence, equivalence: Wordnik
  7. equivalence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. equivalence: Wiktionary
  9. equivalence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. equivalence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. equivalence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. equivalence: Dictionary.com
  13. Equivalence (disambiguation), Equivalence (formal languages), Equivalence (measure theory), Equivalence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Equivalence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. equivalence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. equivalence: Rhymezone
  17. Equivalence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. equivalence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. equivalence: Free Dictionary
  20. equivalence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. equivalence: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Equivalence (Equiv.), equivalence: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. Equivalence: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. equivalence: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Equivalence: Unicode Glossary
  2. equivalence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. equivalence: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Equivalence: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. equivalence: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)

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noun:  (uncountable) The condition of being equivalent or essentially equal.
noun:  (countable, mathematics) An equivalence relation; ≡; ~
noun:  (uncountable, logic) The relationship between two propositions that are either both true or both false.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (mathematics) A Boolean operation that is TRUE when both input variables are TRUE or both input variables are FALSE, but otherwise FALSE; the XNOR function.
noun:  (geometry) 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.
noun:  (translation studies) The degree to which a term or text in one language is semantically similar to its translated counterpart.
verb:  (transitive) To be equivalent or equal to; to counterbalance.

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