Definition of Equation

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Equation

A making equal; equal division; equality; equilibrium.

An expression of the condition of equality between two algebraic quantities or sets of quantities, the sign = being placed between them; as, a binomial equation; a quadratic equation; an algebraic equation; a transcendental equation; an exponential equation; a logarithmic equation; a differential equation, etc.

A quantity to be applied in computing the mean place or other element of a celestial body; that is, any one of the several quantities to be added to, or taken from, its position as calculated on the hypothesis of a mean uniform motion, in order to find its true position as resulting from its actual and unequal motion.

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Equation Quotations

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
Stephen Hawking

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
Nikola Tesla

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.
Philip Pullman

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.
Jesse Ventura

I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.
Jello Biafra

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Alan Turing

God is not a dead equation!
Muhammad Iqbal

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
Arnold J. Toynbee

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
Norman O. Brown

Equation Translations

equation in German is Gleichung, Ausgleich, Gleichung, Ausgleich {m}
equation in Hungarian is egyenlet
equation in Italian is equazione, compromesso
equation in Norwegian is ligning, likestilling
equation in Spanish is compensacion, ecuacion
equation in Swedish is ekvation

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