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equipollent

equipollent

9.9
Having equal power or effect
  • adjective
  • /ˌɛkwɪˈpɒlənt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : equipolente
  • In logic, two equipollent statements can be used interchangeably without affecting the validity of the argument.

Examples

  • The forces acting on the object are equipollent, resulting in a state of equilibrium.

  • For the theorem to hold, the two hypotheses must be equipollent in terms of their implications.

  • "I try to dissuade him from calling me professor, but he's just brimming over, parading all the appropriate semantic terms: "analysis," "emolument," "equipollent."

    Fiction book (1992)

Synonyms

equipotent
vsequipollent
  • Specialized
9.9

Equal in strength or effect to another thing

is used mainly in mathematical or logical contexts rather than general ones

How Equal

identical
237 2.9
equipollent
  • Specialized
9.9
equivalent
143 3.5
similar
∞ 1.0
different
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

equipollent positive

Morphology

equipollent = equi + pollent

The prefix 'equi-' clearly signals 'equal', but the root 'pollent' is not a productive English morpheme and the precise technical sense is specialized, so the meaning is only partially deducible by average learners.

Etymology

Equipollent comes from Latin parts equi- 'equal' and pollent 'powerful', like the English word potent which means 'powerful'. So, it literally means 'equal power', which helps explain why it describes things that have the same force or effect.