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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status;

2. a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced;
- Example: "on a par with the best"
[syn: equality, equivalence, equation, par]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Equality \E*qual"i*ty\, n.; pl. Equalities. [L. aequalitas,
   fr. aequalis equal. See Equal.]
   1. The condition or quality of being equal; agreement in
      quantity or degree as compared; likeness in bulk, value,
      rank, properties, etc.; as, the equality of two bodies in
      length or thickness; an equality of rights.
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            A footing of equality with nobles.    --Macaulay.
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   2. Sameness in state or continued course; evenness;
      uniformity; as, an equality of temper or constitution.
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   3. Evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of surface.
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   4. (Math.) Exact agreement between two expressions or
      magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the
      symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same
      number and kind of units of measure that x does.
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   Confessional equality. See under Confessional.
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U.S. Gazetteer (1990):

Equality, AL
  Zip code(s): 36026
Equality, IL (village, FIPS 24348)
  Location: 37.73592 N, 88.34308 W
  Population (1990): 748 (343 housing units)
  Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 62934


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

59 Moby Thesaurus words for "equality":
   agreement, analogy, balance, bilateral symmetry, coequality,
   coincidence, comparability, comparison, conformity, congruence,
   congruity, consistency, correspondence, dynamic symmetry,
   egalitarianism, equilibrium, equivalence, equivalency, eurythmics,
   eurythmy, evenness, fairness, finish, harmony, homogeneity,
   homoousia, identity, impartiality, indistinguishability, justice,
   keeping, likeness, multilateral symmetry, no difference, oneness,
   par, parallelism, parity, polarity, proportion, proportionality,
   regularity, resemblance, sameness, self-identity, selfhood,
   selfness, selfsameness, shapeliness, similarity, similitude,
   symmetricalness, symmetry, synonymity, synonymousness, synonymy,
   trilateral symmetry, uniformity, unity