equivalent.
Similar or identical in value, meaning or effect; virtually equal.
Meaning & usage
Similar or identical in value, meaning or effect; virtually equal.
To burn calories, a thirty-minute jog is equivalent to a couple of hamburgers.
Of two sets, having a one-to-one correspondence.
Relating to the corresponding elements of an equivalence relation.
Of two categories, (informally) such that one is essentially a relabeling of the other; (formally) related by a pair of functors such the composition of the one with the other is naturally isomorphic to the identity functor.
Having the equal ability to combine.
Of a map, equal-area.
Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; applied to magnitudes.
A square may be equivalent to a triangle.
Where this word comes from
From Latin aequivalentem, accusative singular of aequivalēns, present active participle of aequivaleō (“to be equivalent, have equal power”). By surface analysis, equi- + -valent. Mostly displaced native Middle English efenmete (See evenmete).
Anything that is virtually equal to something else, or has the same value, force, etc.
An equivalent weight.
Where this word comes from
From Latin aequivalentem, accusative singular of aequivalēns, present active participle of aequivaleō (“to be equivalent, have equal power”). By surface analysis, equi- + -valent. Mostly displaced native Middle English efenmete (See evenmete).
To make equivalent to; to equal.
Where this word comes from
From Latin aequivalentem, accusative singular of aequivalēns, present active participle of aequivaleō (“to be equivalent, have equal power”). By surface analysis, equi- + -valent. Mostly displaced native Middle English efenmete (See evenmete).
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