noun
definition
An unfair, not equal, state.
definition
A statement that of two quantities one is specifically less than (or greater than) another. Symbol: < or \leq or > or \geq or \ne, as appropriate.
Examples of inequality in a Sentence
The fourth method is through the parallactic inequality in the moon's motion.
Let's have some policies to reduce wealth inequality.
In this way, the Trust can help redress inequality.
Assets play a crucial role in generating Britain's widening inequality.
Brussels has a list of 21 activities for the next five years to tackle gender inequality issues, mostly those still pervasive pay gaps.
The government has begun to tackle asset inequality with a radical new type of welfare.
And wage inequality increases in the economy without benefits, whereas it remains practically unchanged in the one with benefits.
So New Labor 's recognition of the importance of work as a method of reducing inequality is not unusual.
The U.S. has one of the highest relative poverty rates among industrialized countries, reflecting a high level of economic inequality.
There has also been great inequality in valuations, the increase of valuation in Cook county made in compliance with the revenue law of 1898 being $200,000,000, while that for the rest of the state was only $4,000,000.
The theoretical element is the ratio of the parallactic inequality to the solar parallax.
In the context of Sudan the policies pursued by the ruling northern elite resulted in apparent regional socio-economic inequality with southern Sudan suffering most.
In countries with greater income inequality, health inequality is greater too.
But inequality still permeates the fabric of our society.
Sian Jenkins works full-time as a ward domestic at Morriston hospital, Swansea, but is growing resentful of the inequality in the system.
Thus, if economic relationships are fundamentally unequal, then political and ideological relationships will both reflect - and help to reinforce - inequality.
The alteration that takes place in the regular diurnal inequality throughout the year is best seen by analysing it into a Fourier series of the type c 1 sin (t+ a l) +c2 sin (2t+ a 2)+c 3 sin (3t+a3)+c4 sin (4t+a 4)+..
All patristic students now recognize the great inequality of these authors, and admit that they are not free from the faults of their times; it is not denied that much of their exegesis is untenable, or that their logic is often feeble and their rhetoric offensive to modern taste.
With a view of safeguarding themselves from breakdowns caused by the inequality of feeding, or by the action of malicious persons introducing foreign substances, such as crowbars, bolts, &c., among the canes, and so into the mills, many planters have adopted socalled hydraulic attachments, applied either to the megass roll or the top roll bearings.
Robert Smith (Harmonics, 2nd ed., 1 759, p. 95) states that Sauveur " inferred that octaves and other simple concords, whose vibrations coincide very often, are agreeable and pleasant because their beats are too quick to be distinguished, be the pitch of the sounds ever so low; and on the contrary, that the more complex consonances whose vibrations coincide seldom are disagreeable because we can distinguish their slow beats; which displease the ear, says he, by reason of the inequality of the sound.
In this paper we examine the importance of heterogeneity and self-selection into schooling for the study of inequality.
Sentimentality about death has become a new ideology for justifying social inequality and exploitation.
Distance metrics Any measure that we use should be a distance metric (non-negative, symmetric and respecting triangle inequality).
Anisometropia-An eye condition in which there is an inequality of vision between the two eyes.
Yet even in a church court inequality, generally speaking, is visible to the extent that an elder is not usually eligible for the moderator's chair.
But in truth Massillon is singularly free from inequality.
If all who pay income tax are lumped together and contrasted with those who do not pay, then there is a false division to begin with, and there is so far no means of establishing equality or inequality.
The crowning trophies of gravitational astronomy in the r8th century were Laplace's explanations of the " great inequality ".
Avarice, luxury and the glaring inequality in the distribution of wealth, threatened to bring about the speedy fall of the state if no cure could be found.
Taking conduction into account in the application of the second law of thermodynamics, he proposes to substitute the inequality, Td/dET - P
Encke's result having been rendered evident through his investigation of a lunar inequality.
Owing to the approximate symmetry of the American and Asiatic continents it does not seem likely that the inequality of snowfall would produce an appreciable effect.
The housing market is making inequality wider and starting to furtherimpede social mobility.
The former approach reveals comparatively high levels of inequality aversion (implying a high level of income weighting) in contrast to the latter.
By undermining social cohesion, inequality provides a breeding ground for crime and disorder.
People particularly socialists have always thought that inequality was socially corrosive.
Look for instability of the joint, leg length inequality, marked valgus or varus deformity.
Two years ago at Durban, HIV positive Judge Edwin Cameron's passionate denunciation of health inequality galvanized the world drug access movement.
His conclusions, rather than finding support for integration, portrayed it as supporting the existing ethnic division and perpetuating social inequality.
An effect similar to drift is observable at tennis, golf, base-ball and cricket; but this effect is explainable by the inequality of pressure due to a vortex of air carried along by the rotating ball, and the deviation is in the opposite direction of the drift observed in artillery practice, so artillerists are still awaiting theory and crucial experiment.
Although Tycho Brahe was an original discoverer of this inequality, through whom it became known, Joseph Bertrand of Paris claimed the discovery for Abu 'l-Wefa, an Arabian astronomer, and made it appear that the latter really detected inequalities in the moon's motion which we now know to have been the variation.
The third line gives the range of the regular diurnal inequality, the next four lines the amplitudes of the first four Fourier waves into which the regular diurnal inequality has been analysed.
In correcting the elements of Delambre's solar tables he had been led to suspect an inequality overlooked by their constructor.
At this time the state had been brought to the brink of ruin by the growth of avarice and luxury; there was a glaring inequality in the distribution of land and wealth, and the number of full citizens had sunk to 700, of whom about roc practically monopolized the land.
One cause which prevented the natural increase of population was the inequality in the numbers of the sexes; in Jamaica alone there was in 1789 an excess of 30,000 males.
Doubt was first thrown on the accuracy of this number by an announcement from Hansen in 1862 that the observed parallactic inequality of the moon was irreconcilable with the accepted value of the solar parallax, and indicated the much larger value 8.97".
The inequality in question has its greatest negative value near the time of the moon's first quarter, and the greatest positive value near the third quarter.
The long-sought cause of the "great inequality" of Jupiter and Saturn was found in the near approach to commensurability of their mean motions; it was demonstrated in two elegant theorems, independently of any except the most general considerations as to mass, that the mutual action of the planets could never largely affect the eccentricities and inclinations of their orbits; and the singular peculiarities detected by him in the Jovian system were expressed in the so-called "laws of Laplace."
According to the constitution of 1831 the unit of representation in the legislature was the county; inasmuch as the population of New Castle county has exceeded after 1870 that of both Kent and Sussex, the inequality became a cause of discontent.
With the deflector any inequality in the directive force can be detected, and hence the power of equalizing the forces by the usual soft iron and magnet correctors.