equational
Americanadjective
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of, using, or involving equations.
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Biology. pertaining to the second or nonreductional cell division in meiosis, in which each chromosome divides into two equal parts.
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Grammar. (of a sentence or predication) consisting of a subject and a complement with or without a copula.
“Very interesting, those books” is an equational sentence.
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Field: Without getting too equational about it, the Five certainly informs it.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2022
But, coming to the negatives, the equational interpretation is certainly less obvious.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read
His selection, it seems to me, is open to grave censure, on broader grounds than the mere personally equational of which he speaks, and his choppings, and sub-titles, and so forth, are not commendable.
From Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 30, 1892 by Various
With a few equational strokes of his pen, Einstein has banished from the cosmos every fixed reality except that of light.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
The equational treatment of propositions is closely connected with the diagrammatic.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read
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