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Equality in every part; general equality.

n modern diplomacy, opportunity for political and commercial intercourse open to all upon equal terms, esp. with reference to a nation whose policy is wholly or partially fixed by nations foreign to itself, or to territory newly acquired by a conquering nation. In this sense, often used adjectively, as, open-door syste…

the vertical height to the transverse width of the orbit, which is taken as the standard, equal to 100.

, or sort; as, the higher or lower orders of society; talent of a high order. They are in equal order to their several ends. Jer. Taylor. Various orders various ensigns bear. Granville. Which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime. Hawthorne.

sful and ordinate." Chaucer. Ordinate figure (Math.), a figure whose sides and angles are equal; a regular figure.

worked; especially, one in which the edges are ornamented with conical figures placed at equal distances, with spots between them.

thomorphic projection, a projection in which the angles in the figure to be projected are equal to the corresponding angles in the projected figure.

Noting the system of crystallization which has three unequal axes at right angles to each other; trimetric. See Crystallization.

whose contact with a given curve, at a given point, is of a higher order (or involves the equality of a greater number of successive differential coefficients of the ordinates of the curves taken at that point) than that of any other curve of the same kind.

al. The locus may consist of a single closed line, as shown by the dotted line, or of two equal ovals about the points A and B.

To exceed equality with; to outweigh. Locke.

To be more than equal to or a match for; hence, to vanquish. Drayton.

Equal. [Obs.] Burrill.

Equality; -- sometimes written ovelty and ovealty. Burrill.

One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.

A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand; -- used in measuring a horse's height.

Divided into four or more equal parts by perpendicular lines, and of two different tinctures disposed alternately.

A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.

Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.

of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus.