Movatterモバイル変換


[0]ホーム

URL:


Jump to content
WiktionaryThe Free Dictionary
Search

equality

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed fromMiddle Frenchequalité (modern Frenchégalité), fromLatinaequālitās, aequālitātem.Doublet ofequity. Bysurface analysis,equal +‎-ity

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

equality (usuallyuncountable,pluralequalities)

  1. The fact of beingequal.
  2. (mathematics) The fact of being equal, of having the same value.(Can we add anexample for this sense?)
  3. The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences.
    • 1964 December 13,Harry S. Truman, 8:26 from the start, inMP77-34 KCMO-TV News Segments, 1964-1966[1],Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum,National Archives Identifier:595162:
      I think somebody asked me the other day when I was holding a conference over here at the library if a woman could be President of the United States. Well I said they've taken over everything else in the world, why not that? [Laughter] And that wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't happen one of these days because the country believes inequality.
    • 2020 December 12, Ouyang Fei, “The Issue of Equality in the U.S. Election and Its Communist Roots”, inMinghui[2]:
      Jefferson was talking about theequality of natural human rights. You have freedom, and I have freedom. You and I have equal rights to freedom.

Synonyms

[edit]

Antonyms

[edit]

Derived terms

[edit]

Translations

[edit]
fact of being equal
mathematics: fact of having the same value
equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked

References

[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=equality&oldid=83780892"
Categories:
Hidden categories:

[8]ページ先頭

©2009-2025 Movatter.jp