equation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Old French, from Latin aequātiō (“an equalizing”).
Morphologically equate + -ion
Base: equate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: equations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: æquation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of equating two or more things, or the state of those things being equal (that is, identical).
pos: noun
examples: We need to bring the balance of power into equation
The cultural equation of love with suffering is similar to the equation of love with an experience of both transcendence and consummation in which love is affirmed in an ostentatious display of self loss.
gloss: An assertion that two expressions are equal, expressed by writing the two expressions separated by an equal sign; in mathematical problems, equations describe various essential aspects of the problem, each of which contributes to the resolution of the problem in part.
pos: noun
gloss: A small correction to observed values to remove the effects of systematic errors in an observation.
pos: noun
Related words: equality
equational
identity
inequality
inequation
Derived words: absolute personal equation
accounting equation
affected equation
Airy equation
algebraic equation
Arrhenius equation
balance sheet equation
Bellman equation
Bernoulli's equation
Boltzmann equation
Cartesian equation
Cassie equation
Cauchy-Riemann equation
Chazy equation
chemical equation
cubic equation
d'Alembert's equation
delay differential equation
difference equation
differential equation
Diophantine equation
Dirac equation
Drake equation
Duffing equation
Ehrenfest equation
eigenequation
Einstein field equation
enter into the equation
enter the equation
equation clock
equation division
equationism
equationist
equationlike
equation of motion
equation of time
Ernst equation
Euler-Lagrange equation
exponential equation
Fermat equation
Flory-Fox equation
Gauss-Codazzi equation
generalized estimating equation
Gibbs-Helmholtz equation
Gibbs-Thomson equation
Hagen-Poiseuille equation
half-equation
Hall-Petch equation
Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation
Hamilton-Jacobi equation
Hartree equation
Henderson-Hasselbalch equation
HJB equation
integral equation
Kepler's equation
Lagrange's equation
Lagrange's equations
Laguerre's equation
Lanchester equation
Laplace's equation
Legendre's differential equation
Lewin's equation
light equation
Lindley equation
linear equation
Lotka-Volterra equation
Manning's equation
MOJS equation
Morison equation
Navier-Stokes equation
Nernst equation
net ionic equation
nonequation
ordinary differential equation
Ornstein-Zernike equation
OZ equation
parametric equation
partial differential equation
Pell equation
Pell-Fermat equation
Pell's equation
Penman equation
personal equation
polar equation
polynomial equation
power equation
Price equation
Price's equation
quadratic equation
rate equation
Riccati equation
rocket equation
Schrödinger equation
Schrodinger equation
Schrödinger's equation
Schrodinger's equation
Schrödinger's wave equation
Schroedinger equation
Schroedinger's equation
sine-Gordon equation
Slutsky equation
Steinmetz's equation
stochastic differential equation
Sturm-Liouville equation
subequation
Sylvester equation
time-average equation
time-independent Schrödinger equation
Van der Waals equation
van der Waals equation
van der Waals equation of state
Volterra integral equation
wave equation
Weingarten equation
Wheeler-DeWitt equation
Yang-Baxter equation
Young-Laplace equation
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