Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Equal in force, power, effectiveness, or significance.
- adjective Logic Validly derived from each other; deducible.
- adjective Equivalent.
- noun An equivalent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having equal power or force; equivalent.
- In logic, having the same meaning: applied to two propositions.
- In mathematics, equal and parallel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having equal power or force; equivalent.
- adjective (Logic) Having equivalent signification and reach; expressing the same thing, but differently.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having
equal power orforce - adjective logic able to be
deduced from the other - adjective
equivalent
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Secondly, what clear sense and significancy can be given the words without the supplement of the conditional conjunction, or some other term equipollent thereunto, Mr
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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In this connection mention is especially often made of Bolzano's grasp of the “paradoxical” fact that an infinite set can and must be equipollent with one of its proper subsets, i.e., is
Slices of Matisse gerard varni 2009
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But the evidence against doing so is at least equipollent: Bayle claims, repeatedly and unequivocally, to be a believer.
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(A set is reflexive iff it is equipollent to one of its proper subsets; and two sets are equipollent with one another iff there exists a bijection, i.e., a one-to-one correspondence, between them.)
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Only superstition is now so well advanced, that men of the first blood, are as firm as butchers by occupation; and votary resolution, is made equipollent to custom, even in matter of blood.
The Essays 2007
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The word “equipollent” is out there, but is very rarely used.
Intelligent Design explained: Part 2 random search - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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Though the term of “possibility” in the supposition, and “may” in the inference, seem to be equipollent, yet to render them of the same significancy as to the argument in hand, they must both be used in the same respect.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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[209] “Physical and moral” are taken to be terms, it seems, equipollent to
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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But there are words and phrases, both in the Old Testament and in the New, that are equipollent unto it, and express the matter or thing intended by it: as in the Old are, פּ ִדְי וֹ ן פּ ָדָה [Ps.xlix. 9], and כּ ֹפֶר.
A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity 1616-1683 1965
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For, in a categorical syllogism the major proposition is not to be particular, or equipollent to a particular; for, from such a proposition, when any thing communicable to more is the subject of it, and is restrained unto one particular, nothing can be inferred in the conclusion.
A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity 1616-1683 1965
rubah commented on the word equipollent
An equipollent system is kinda like an equivalent system except it doesn't adhere to the rigid body principle (the body has some flex mechanism or is not rigid).
One of those words that don't seem like they really would exist but here it is anyways.
October 2, 2008
qms commented on the word equipollent
A teen in the morning is indolent;
The nocturnal beast’s still somnolent.
The breakfast convention
Will hang in suspension
While hunger with sleep’s equipollent.
February 17, 2018