equivalency
(iːˈkwɪvələnsɪ)
[ad. L. æquivalentia: see equivalence n. and -ency.]
1. = equivalence 1.
| 1535 Bp. Salisbury in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. lxi. 150 Your letter..having the equivalency of a inhibition. 1614 Selden Titles Hon. 199 Dux and Comes Britanniæ, of whose equiualencie in ancient time, alreadie. 1674 Petty Disc. Dupl. Proportion 38 The one to measure the velocity of the Wind, and the other its Power or Equivalency to Weight. a 1677 Barrow Serm. (1810) I. 159 We have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of Sins; which argueth the equivalency of these terms. 1737 L. Clarke Hist. Bible (1740) II. v. 126 He promises them the reward of an hundredfold by way of comfort and equivalency. 1803 Edin. Rev. III. 237 Money only serves as a measure of equivalency, not as a medium of exchange. 1821 Ibid. XXXV. 432 By means of which alone the equivalency of dactyls and spondees could ever be established. 1864 Huxley Compar. Anat. v. 85 Leave aside altogether the question of the equivalency of these groups. |
b. Physics. = equivalence 1 b.
| 1866 Intell. Observ. No. 54. 454 This equivalency of heat and mechanical force. |
2. Chem. = equivalence 2.
| 1869 M. Somerville Molec. Sc. i. iii. 106 And thus chemical equivalency extends to them. |
3. Geol. Of strata: Correspondence in serial order and characteristics.
| 1853 G. Tate Addr. Berwick. Naturalists' Club, Fossiliferous beds..furnish interesting evidence as to age and equivalency. 1862 Dana Man. Geol. 203 (title) Reality of the Primordial or Potsdam Period in America, and its equivalency with the European. |
† 4. An equivalent, a substitute. Obs.
| 1698 Norris Pract. Disc. (1707) IV. 84 A Vicarious Punishment, not a rigid Satisfaction, but an Equivalency. 1705 Col. Rec. Penn. II. 195 Will prove a sufficient Equivalency. |
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Add: 5. = *equivalence n. 3.
| 1961 in Webster. 1976 Jrnl. Asian Stud. XXXV. 594 Dumont does some equivalencies—such as dharma = Brahman = ritual purity. 1987 Math. Modelling IX. 265 The paper proposes means whereby the rjk(t) risk differential equivalencies may be elicited as dynamic time functions. |