equivalence (ekwivalens)

[= F. équiva lence = Sp. Pg. equivalencia = It. equivalenza, To restore him to some proportion or equivalence with that state of grace from whence he is fallen. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 182. That there is any equivalence or parity of worth betwixt the good we do to our brother and the good we hope for from God, all good Protestants do deny. Bp . Smalridge. Since we regard as the highest life that which, like our own, shows great complexity in the correspondences, the equivalence between degree of life and degree of correspondence is unquestionable. H. Spencer, Prin. of Biol., § 32. Equivalence of force, the doctrine that force of one kind becomes transformed into force of another kind of the same value. See energy. - Equivalence of functions. See function.