What is the difference between 'equivalent' and 'equivalence'?

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What is the difference between 'equivalent and equivalence'?
 
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HCverma said:
What is the difference between 'equivalent and equivalence'?
Simply the "part of speech".
Equivalent usually is adjective or can be subject nominative.
Equivalence is a noun.

Have you some examples of use that you want to understand?

You can find "equivalent" used as a noun.
The equivalent of 100 degrees Celsius is 212 degrees Fahrenheit.