inequality

inégalité

Différence injuste de richesse, de pouvoir, de droits ou de possibilités entre personnes ou groupes.

En anglais simple : An unfair difference in money, power, rights, or opportunities between people or groups.

• The policy aims to reduce inequality.
• Income inequality has grown in recent years.
• They are studying inequality in access to education.

Comment l'utiliser : inequality between A and B (The report examines inequality between men and women.)

Synonymes : disparity, unfairness

Contraires : equality

Expressions courantes : income inequality, social inequality, gender inequality

inégalité, inéquation

Expression mathématique indiquant que deux quantités sont différentes, ou que l’une est supérieure ou inférieure à l’autre.

En anglais simple : A mathematical statement showing that two amounts are different, or that one is larger or smaller.

• Solve the inequality for x.
• This inequality compares two positive numbers.
• Reversing the inequality sign changes the answer.

Synonymes : unequality, unequalness, inequalness, inequation

Contraires : equality

Expressions courantes : solve an inequality, linear inequality, strict inequality