Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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equivalence

/ɪˈkwɪv.ə.ləns/ noun, verb

Forms equivalences equivalencing equivalenced æquivalence

  1. noun (uncountable) The condition of being equivalent or essentially equal: the status of being interchangeable. “His answer and yours share equivalence.”
  2. noun (countable) An act of equating two things; an assertion of equivalence. “I disagree with his equivalence of his behavior with that of an overexcited teenager.”
  3. noun (uncountable, logic) The relationship between two propositions that are either both true or both false.
  4. noun (countable, mathematics) An equivalence relation; ≡; ~.
  5. noun (mathematics) A Boolean operation that is TRUE when both input variables are TRUE or both input variables are FALSE, but otherwise FALSE; the XNOR function.
  6. noun (geometry) A number in intersection theory. A positive-dimensional variety sometimes behaves formally as if it were a finite number of points; this number is its equivalence.
  7. noun (chemistry) The quantity of the combining power of an atom, expressed in hydrogen units; the number of hydrogen atoms can combine with, or be exchanged for; valency.
  8. noun (music) The state of two notes being separated by one octave or the similarity of two such notes.
  9. verb (transitive) To be equivalent or equal to; to counterbalance.

Synonyms

equatedness equivalency equality parity sameness comparability correlation parallelism resemblance similitude comparison equation par compare

Antonyms

inequation inequivalence nonequivalence

Etymology

From French équivalence, from Medieval Latin aequivalentia.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The condition of being equivalent or equal; equality of worth, value, signification, or force; as, an equivalence of definitions.
  2. noun Equal power or force; equivalent amount.
  3. verb To be equivalent or equal to; to counterbalance. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Etymology [Cf. F. équivalence, LL. aequivalentia.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “equivalence”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details