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Equivalence

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Equivalence or Equivalent may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Album-equivalent unit, a measurement unit in the music industry
  • Equivalence class (music)
  • Equivalent VIII, or The Bricks, a minimalist sculpture by Carl Andre
  • Equivalents, a series of photographs of clouds by Alfred Stieglitz

Language

Law

  • The doctrine of equivalents in patent law
  • The equivalence principle as if impacts on the direct effect of European Union law

Logic

  • Logical equivalence, where two statements are logically equivalent if they have the same logical content
  • Material equivalence, a relationship where the truth of either one of the connected statements requires the truth of the other

Science and technology

Chemistry

Computing

  • Turing equivalence (theory of computation), or Turing completeness
  • Semantic equivalence in computer metadata

Economics

  • Certainty equivalent, a principle related to risk premium
  • Economic equivalence, a concept in engineering economics
  • Ricardian equivalence, or Ricardo–de Viti–Barro equivalence, a proposition in economics

Mathematics

Physics

Other uses

  • Equivalence (trade)
  • Moral equivalence, a term used in political debate
  • The Equivalent, a sum paid from England to Scotland at their Union in 1707

See also

  • All pages with titles containing equivalent
  • All pages with titles containing equivalence
  • All pages with titles containing equivalency
  • Quotations related to Equivalence at Wikiquote
  • ≡ (disambiguation)
  • Equivalency, a National Collegiate Athletic Association concept
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