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— Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

…

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noun

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined

“a king's accession to a confederacy”

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equivalency

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ih-kwuh-VAL-uhn-see/

An equivalent thing.

In a Sentence

“The teacher explained that the equivalency between fractions means they represent the same amount.”

Origin

From Latin *aequivalere* meaning ‘to be equal’.

Common Phrases

diploma equivalency. equivalencybetween equivalencycertificate equivalencytest equivalencyfactors equivalencyequivalency schoolequivalency general

Synonyms

equivalenceparityequalitysameness

Antonyms

differenceinequality

Related Words

equivalenceparityequationequivalentequalitycorrelationmatchingequalization

Poetry examples for “equivalency”

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