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The condition of being equivalent or equal; equality of worth, value, signification, or force; as, an equivalence of definitions.

Same as Equivalence.

port or meaning. For now to serve and to minister, servile and ministerial, are terms equivalent. South.

In an equal manner.

Having seven units of attractive force or affinity; -- said of heptad elements or radicals.

Having a valence of six; -- said of hexads.

Want of prevalence. [Obs.]

posits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7. [Local, U. S.] The woody intervale just beyond the marshy land. The Century.

Strength; health. [Obs.]

Wanting health; valetudinary. [R.]

Having a valence of one; univalent. See Univalent.

Quality, state, or degree, of a multivalent element, atom, or radical.

Having a valence greater than one, as silicon.

Having a valence of eight; capable of being combined with, exchanged for, or compared with, eight atoms of hydrogen; -- said of certain atoms or radicals.

Prevalent everywhere or in all things. Fuller.

Having a valence of five; -- said of certain atoms and radicals.

Multivalent.

The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension; as, the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor. The duke better knew what kind of argument were of prevalence with him. Clarendon.…

See Prevalence.

vailing; predominant; successful; victorious. Brennus told the Roman embassadors, that prevalent arms were as good as any title. Sir W. Raleigh.