inequality

Meaning

Noun

• An unfair, not equal, state.
• A statement that of two quantities one is specifically less than (or greater than) another. Symbol: or $\backslash leq$ or $>$ or $\backslash geq$ or $\backslash ne$, as appropriate.

Related

Similar words

• inequation

Narrower meaning words

• Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
• triangle inequality

Origin

• From Old French inequalité, from Medieval Latin inaequalitas, from inaequalis, from in- + aequalis.
• Morphologically inequal + -ity