Meaning of inequality | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Absence of equality
2. Absence of equality.
   countable, uncountable
3. A condition or state (of social, cultural, or legal matters) that is not equal; especially, such a condition that is thereby also unfair.
   countable, uncountable
4. A condition or state (of social, cultural, or legal matters) that is not equal; especially, such a condition that is thereby also unfair
5. A statement that of two quantities one is specifically less than (or greater than) another. Symbol: < or ≤ or > or ≥ or ne , as appropriate.
   countable, uncountable
6. A statement that of two quantities one is specifically less than (or greater than) another. Symbol: &lt; {\displaystyle &lt;} or ≤ {\displaystyle \leq } or &gt; {\displaystyle &gt;} or ≥ {\displaystyle \geq } or ≠ {\displaystyle \neq } , as appropriate
7. Unevenness, irregularity.
   countable, uncountable
8. Unevenness, irregularity

Equivalents

Examples

“The inequality in living standards led to a civil war as the have-nots rebelled.”

“The traditional inequalities of marriage, such as changing her surname to his.”

“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.”

“With the growing awareness of climate change, congestion, and regional inequality, rail transport has re-emerged as a solution.”

“The inequality x is less than y, together with that ylt;z, allows us to deduce the inequality xlt;z.”

“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.”

“When we behold a wide, turf-covered expanse, we should remember that its smoothness, upon which so much of its beauty depends, is mainly due to all the inequalities having been levelled by worms.”

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