equipollent
Americanadjective
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equal in power, effect, etc.; equivalent.
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Logic. (of propositions, propositional forms, etc.) logically equivalent in any of various specified ways.
noun
adjective
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equal or equivalent in significance, power, or effect
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logic (of two propositions) logically deducible from each other; equivalent
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maths logic (of two classes) having the same cardinality
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Etymology
Origin of equipollent
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin aequipollent- (stem of aequipollēns ) of equal value, equivalent to aequi- equi- + pollent- (stem of pollēns ) able, present participle of pollēre to be strong
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The condition and the major term are "equipollent" in their extension.
From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Madhava Acharya
And then said a Clerk to me, "Is not the Word of GOD, and GOD Himself equipollent, that is, of one authority?"
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
What appealed only too powerfully to Chinese superstition was the use of spells, charms and magical formulæ and the doctrine that since the universe is merely idea, thoughts and facts are equipollent.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot
Nor is aught of an equipollent conflict seen, nor the weaker's flashed device; Headless is offered a breast to beaks deliberate, formal, assured, precise.
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
But, since is and exists are equipollent, and so being and existing, is being is the same as the unimpeachable is existing.
From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Thomas Embly Osmun
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