equivalency

[EQUIVALENCE.] *1. Ord. Lang.: The same as EQUIVALENCE (q.v.). "There are yet three ways more by which single acts do become habits by equivalency and moral value." -Bishop Taylor: On Repentance, ch. iv., § 3. 2. Chem.: The quality in elements of combining with or displacing one another in certain definite proportions. When the atomic weight is taken into account the equivalency of an element is called its atomicity (q.v.). [CHEMICAL EQUIVALENT.] ě-quiv-a-lent, a . & s . [Fr., from Lat. æquiva lens , pr. par. of æquivaleo =to be equivalent: æquus =equal, and valeo = to be worth; Sp., Port. & ital. equivalente .] IMG:content-1108.png:[blocks in formation] B. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. Anything which is equal in value, power, force, or weight with something else. "In the po e ion of some good that is more than an equivalent.?"-Cogan: On the Pa ions, disc. iii., § 2. 2. A word of equal meaning, force, or import. II. Technically: 1. Chem.: [ Chemical Equivalents .] 2. Geol .: A stratum or a series of strata formed at the same period as a stratum or a series of strata of different lithologic character in a different region, or occupying the same relative position in the scale of rocks, and containing fo ils of the same kind if deposited under similar circumstances. Thus the Bath Oolite is the equivalent of the Caen building stone. ě-quiv'-a-lent-lý, adv . [Eng. equivalent : -ly.] In an equivalent manner; in a manner equal in value, power, or degree with something else. "Insufficient am I His grace to magnify, And laude equivalently." Skelton: Poems , p. 88. e-qui-văl-üe, v. t. [Pref. equi-, and Eng. value (q. v.).] To put on a par.