equation

See also équation

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• æquation (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin aequātiō (“an equalizing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪˈkweɪʒən/, /ɪˈkweɪʃən/, SAMPA: /I"keIZ@n/, /I"keIS@n/
• Rhymes: -eɪʒən

Noun

equation (plural equations)

1. (mathematics) An assertion that two expressions are equal, expressed by writing the two expressions separated by an equal sign; from which one is to determine a particular quantity.
2. (astronomy) A small correction to observed values to remove the effects of systematic errors in an observation.

Derived terms

Derived terms

algebraic equation Arrhenius equation chemical equation differential equation Diophantine equation Drake equation integral equation Kepler's equation Lagrange's equations linear equation

Navier-Stokes equation parametric equation partial differential equation Pell's equation personal equation polynomial equation quadratic equation Schrödinger's wave equation Van der Waals equation wave equation

Related terms

• equality
• equational
• identity
• inequation
• inequality

Translations

assertion

Arabic: معادلة (ar) (mu3aadala) f. Armenian: հավասարում (hy) (havasarum) Belarusian: раўнанне (be) (raŭnánne) n. Bulgarian: уравнение (bg) (uravnénie) n. Chinese: Mandarin: 方程式 (cmn) (fāngchéngshì), 方程 (zh) (fāngchéng) Croatian: jednadžba (hr) f. Czech: rovnice (cs) f. Danish: ligning (da) c. Dutch: vergelijking (nl) Esperanto: ekvacio (eo) Finnish: yhtälö (fi) French: équation (fr) f. Georgian: გასწორება (ka) (gasts'oreba) German: Gleichung (de) f. Greek: εξίσωση (el) (exísosi) f. Hindi: समीकरण (hi) (samīkaraṇ) m. Hungarian: egyenlet (hu) Icelandic: jafna (is) f. Ido: equaciono (io) Irish: cothromóid (ga) Italian: equazione (it) f. Japanese: 方程式 (ja) (ほうていしき, hōteishiki)

Korean: 방정식 (ko) (bangjeongsik) (方程式 (ko)) Kurdish: Sorani: هاوکێشه‌ (ku) (hawkéshe) Macedonian: равенка (mk) (ravenka) f. Malayalam: സമവാക്യം (ml) (samavākyam) Norwegian: likning (no) Persian:معادله (fa) (mo'âdele) Polish: równanie (pl) n. Portuguese: equação (pt) f. Romanian: ecuație (ro) f. Russian: уравнение (ru) (uravnénije) n. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: једначина (sh) f., (Croatian) једнаџба (sh) f. Roman: jednačina (sh) f., (Croatian) jednadžba (sh) f. Slovak: rovnica (sk) f. Slovene: enačba (sl) f. Spanish: ecuación (es) f. Swedish: ekvation (sv) c. Tajik: муодила (tg) (muodila) Turkish: denklem (tr) Ukrainian: рівняння (uk) (rivnjánnja) n. Urdu: مساوات (ur) (musawāt) f. Vietnamese: phương trình (vi) (方程 (vi))

correction