equivalent
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: 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).
Inflected forms:
form: more equivalent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most equivalent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: æquivalent
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: eq.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: equivalents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: æquivalent
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: eq.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: equivalents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: equivalenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: equivalented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: equivalented
pos: verb
tags: past
form: æquivalent
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: eq.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: Similar or identical in value, meaning or effect; virtually equal.
pos: adj
examples: To burn calories, a thirty-minute jog is equivalent to a couple of hamburgers.
For now to serve and to minister, servile and ministerial, are terms equivalent.
A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place. Applying a force tangential to the knob is essentially equivalent to applying one perpendicular to a radial line defining the lever.
Total activity levels in the lowest quartile were equivalent to walking for 49 minutes at roughly 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) per hour daily. Total activity levels in the second-, third- and fourth-highest quartiles were equivalent to 78, 105 and 160 minutes, respectively.
gloss: Of two sets, having a one-to-one correspondence.
pos: adj
examples: All enumerable sets are equivalent to each other, but not to any finite set.
Equivalent sets should, by rights, have the same "number" of elements. For this reason we sometimes say that equivalent sets have the same cardinality.
Finite sets A and B are equivalent sets only when n(A) = n(B) i.e., the number of elements in A and B are equal.
The equivalence theorem: If both M is equivalent to a subset N₁ of N and N is equivalent to a subset M₁ of M, then the sets M and N are equivalent to each other.
gloss: Relating to the corresponding elements of an equivalence relation.
pos: adj
gloss: 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.
pos: adj
gloss: Having the equal ability to combine.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a map, equal-area.
pos: adj
gloss: Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; applied to magnitudes.
pos: adj
examples: A square may be equivalent to a triangle.
gloss: Anything that is virtually equal to something else, or has the same value, force, etc.
pos: noun
examples: He owned that, if the Test Act were repealed, the Protestants were entitled to an equivalent, and went so far as to suggest several equivalents.
Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern. This difficult effort will be the "moral equivalent of war" — except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not destroy.
gloss: An equivalent weight.
pos: noun
gloss: To make equivalent to; to equal.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: background radiation equivalent time
banana equivalent dose
biequivalent
bioequivalent
carbon dioxide equivalent
car equivalent unit
cyberequivalent
equivalent airspeed
equivalent dose
equivalentist
equivalently
equivalent potential temperature
equivalent shaft horsepower
equivalent variation
equivalent weight
flight-time equivalent dose
forty-foot equivalent unit
gramme equivalent
inequivalent
jeu de taquin equivalent
microequivalent
milliequivalent
Morita-equivalent
nanoequivalent
nonequivalent
non-union Mexican equivalent
NP-equivalent
osmoequivalent
quasiequivalent
row-equivalent
space equivalent zone
tissue equivalent material
twenty-foot equivalent unit
carbon dioxide-equivalent
certainty equivalent
dose equivalent
electrochemical equivalent
full-time equivalent
gasoline-equivalent gallon
gasoline gallon equivalent
gram equivalent
moisture equivalent
pitting resistance equivalent number
TNT equivalent
Turing equivalent
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