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Definition of Equality

1. Noun. The quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status.

2. Noun. A state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced. "On a par with the best"

Definition of Equality

1. n. The condition or quality of being equal; agreement in quantity or degree as compared; likeness in bulk, value, rank, properties, etc.; as, the equality of two bodies in length or thickness; an equality of rights.

Definition of Equality

1. Noun. The fact of being equal. ¹

2. Noun. (mathematics) The fact of being equal, of having the same value. ¹

3. Noun. The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Equality

1. the state of being equal [n -TIES]

Medical Definition of Equality

1. 1. The condition or quality of being equal; agreement in quantity or degree as compared; likeness in bulk, value, rank, properties, etc.; as, the equality of two bodies in length or thickness; an equality of rights. 2. Sameness in state or continued course; evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of temper or constitution. 3. Evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of surface. 4. Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. See: equal. Origin: L. Aequalitas, fr. Aequalis equal. (06 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Equality

equal weight equaled equaling equalisation equalise equalised equaliser equalisers equalises equalising

equalism equalitarian equalitarianism equalitarians equalities equality (current term) equality before the law equality sign equality signs equalization

equalizations equalize equalized equalizer equalizers equalizes equalizing equalizing dividend equall equalled

Literary usage of Equality

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1900)
"It is possible to imagine an extreme point at which freedom and equality would meet and ... Such is the completest form that equality can assume upon earth; ..."

2. The American Commonwealth by James Bryce Bryce (1914)
"CHAPTER CXIII equality THE United States are deemed all the world over to be ... Yet some philosophers say that equality is impossible, and others, ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"And as for that, if rights in the sense of equality meant the equality just named, most Englishmen and many Americans, perhaps a majority of Americans, ..."

4. Modern Democracies by James Bryce Bryce (1921)
"Let us begin by distinguishing four different kinds of equality. A. Civil equality consists in the possession by all the citizens of the same status in the ..."

5. The Popular Science Monthly (1878)
"equality.1 Вт MATTHEW ARNOLD. THERE is a maxim which we all know, which occurs in our copy-books, which occurs in that solemn and beautiful formulary ..."

6. The American Democrat, Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the by James Fenimore Cooper (1838)
"ON AMERICAN equality. ' The equality of the United States is no more absolute, than that of any other country. There may be less inequality in this nation ..."

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