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Inequality vs Expression - What's the difference?

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In mathematics|lang=en terms the difference between inequality and expression

is that inequality is (mathematics) a statement that of two quantities one is specifically less than (or greater than) another symbol: < or ≤ or > or ≥ or ≠, as appropriate while expression is (mathematics) an arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.

As nouns the difference between inequality and expression

is that inequality is an unfair, not equal, state while expression is a particular way of phrasing an idea.

inequality

English

(wikipedia inequality)

Alternative forms

* (qualifier)

Noun

(inequalities)
  • An unfair, not equal, state.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
    • , author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Money just makes the rich suffer , volume=188, issue=23, page=19 , magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) citation , passage=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.}}
    The inequality in living standards led to a civil war as the have nots rebelled.
  • (mathematics) A statement that of two quantities one is specifically less than (or greater than) another. Symbol: < or ? or > or ? or ?, as appropriate.
    • The inequality''' x is less than y, together with that y x

    Synonyms

    * (statement in mathematics) inequation

    See also

    *

    Hyponyms

    * Cauchy-Schwarz inequality * triangle inequality

    expression

    English

    (wikipedia expression)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A particular way of phrasing an idea.
  • A colloquialism or idiom.
  • A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=9 citation , passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}
  • (mathematics) An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.
  • (biology) The process of translating a gene into a protein.
  • (programming) A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.
  • Of a mother, the process of expressing milk.

    • Derived terms

    * arithmetic expression * linguistic expression * logical expression * regular expression * expression pedal

    Related terms

    * express * expressive * expressionless * expressionism * expressible

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