Ĭn'e-qual'i-ty, n.
(-e-kwŏl'ĭ-tȳ), n. [Prefix in, not, and equality; Lat. inæqualitas, It. inegualità, inugualità, Sp. inegualdad, Fr. inégalité. See supra.]
Sense 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; diversity; as, an inequality in size or stature; an inequality of numbers or of power; inequality of distances or of motions, or rank or property.
Sense 2. Unevenness; want of levelness; the alternate rising and falling of a surface; as, the inequalities of the surface of the earth, or of a marble slab, &c.
Sense 3. Disproportion to any office or purpose; inadequacy; incompetency; as, the inequality of terrestrial things to the wants of a rational soul.
Sense 4. (Alg.) The expression of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them, as 2 < 3, 4 > 1.
Sense 5. (Astron.) An irregularity or deviation in the motion of a planet or satellite from its uniform mean motion.