inequality

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inequality

Alternative forms

inæquality (archaic, rare)

Etymology

From Middle English inequalite, from Old French inequalité, from Medieval Latin inaequālitās, from Latin inaequālis (“unequal”), from in- (“not”) + aequālis (“equal”).

Morphologically inequal +‎ -ity and in- +‎ equality.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭnĭkwŏl'ĭtē, IPA^(key): /ˌɪn.ɪˈkwɒl.ɪ.ti/
- Audio (London): (file)
(US) enPR: ĭn-ĭʹkwŏ-lĭ-tē IPA^(key): /ˌɪn.ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/, [ˌɪn.ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ɾi]

Noun

inequality (countable and uncountable, plural inequalities)

An unfair, not equal, state.
- 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[1], volume 188, number 23, page 19:
  In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
The inequality in living standards led to a civil war as the have nots rebelled.
(mathematics) A statement that of two quantities one is specifically less than (or greater than) another. Symbol: $<$ $<$ or $\leq$ $\leq$ or $>$ $>$ or $\geq$ $\geq$ or $\neq$ $\neq$ , as appropriate.
The inequality $x$ is less than $y$ , together with that $y<z$ , allows us to deduce the inequality $x<z$ .
- 2015, Brandon Fogel, “Multideviations: The hidden structure of Bell's theorems”, in arXiv‎^[2]:
  I then specify a set of new tight Bell inequalities for arbitrary event spaces -- the "even/odd" inequalities -- which have a straightforward interpretation when expressed in terms of multideviations.

Synonyms

(statement in mathematics): inequation

Hyponyms

Translations

unfair, not equal, state

Arabic: عَدَم مُسَاوَاة m (ʕadam musāwāh)
Asturian: desigualdá f
Azerbaijani: qeyri-bərabərlik
Belarusian: няро́ўнасць f (njaróŭnascʹ)
Bulgarian: нера́венство (bg) n (nerávenstvo)
Catalan: desigualtat (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 不平等 (zh) (bùpíngděng)
Czech: nerovnost f
Danish: ulighed c
Dutch: ongelijkheid (nl) f
Esperanto: malegaleco
Finnish: epätasa-arvo (fi), eriarvoisuus (fi)
French: inégalité (fr) f
Galician: desigualdade (gl) f
Georgian: უთანასწორობა (utanasc̣oroba), უთანაბრობა (utanabroba), არათანასწორობა (aratanasc̣oroba)
German: Ungleichheit (de) f
Greek: ανισότητα (el) f (anisótita)
Ancient: ἀνισότης f (anisótēs)
Indonesian: ketimpangan (id)
Japanese: 不平等 (ja) (ふびょうどう, fubyōdō)
Korean: 불평등 (ko) (bulpyeongdeung)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: newekhevî (ku) f, neyeksanî (ku)
Latin: inīquitās f
Macedonian: нееднаквост f (neednakvost)
Malay: ketidaksamaan, ketaksamaan
Occitan: inegalitat (oc) f
Persian: نابرابری (fa) (nâbarâbari)
Polish: nierówność (pl) f
Portuguese: desigualdade (pt)
Romanian: inegalitate (ro)
Russian: нера́венство (ru) n (nerávenstvo)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: неједна́ко̄ст f

Roman: nejednákōst (sh) f
Slovak: nerovnosť f
Slovene: neenakost f
Spanish: desigualdad (es) f
Swedish: ojämlikhet (sv) c
Ukrainian: нері́вність f (nerívnistʹ)
Urdu: غیر یکسانیت (ġer eksānet), نابرابری
Welsh: anghydraddoldeb m

statement that one quantity is less (or greater) than another

Belarusian: няро́ўнасць f (njaróŭnascʹ)
Bulgarian: нера́венство (bg) n (nerávenstvo)
Catalan: desigualtat (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 不等式 (zh) (bùděngshì)
Czech: nerovnice f
Danish: ulighed c
Dutch: ongelijkheid (nl)
Finnish: epäyhtälö (fi)
French: inéquation (fr) f
Georgian: უტოლობა (uṭoloba)
German: Ungleichung (de) f
Greek: ανισότητα (el) f (anisótita)
Icelandic: ójafna f
Indonesian: pertidaksamaan
Italian: disequazione (it) f disuguaglianza (it) f
Japanese: 不等式 (ja) (ふとうしき, futōshiki)
Kazakh: теңсіздік (teñsızdık)
Korean: 부등식 (ko) (budeungsik)
Malay: ketaksamaan
Polish: nierówność (pl) f
Portuguese: inequação (pt) f, desigualdade (pt) f
Romanian: inecuație (ro) f
Russian: нера́венство (ru) n (nerávenstvo)
Spanish: inecuación f
Swedish: olikhet (sv) c
Ukrainian: нері́вність f (nerívnistʹ)
Vietnamese: bất đẳng thức (vi)