Sekirov Dictionary

equivalent

/ɪˈkwɪvələnt/

adjective 7
noun 2
verb 1
forms 5

adjective7

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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.
- All enumerable sets are equivalent to each other, but not to any finite set. — 1950
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.

noun2

•
Anything that is virtually equal to something else, or has the same value, force, etc.
- He owned that, if the Test Act were repealed, the Protestants were entitled to an equivalent, and went so far as to suggest several equivalents. — 1849
An equivalent weight.

verb1

To make equivalent to; to equal.

forms

equivalented · equivalenting · equivalents · more equivalent · most equivalent

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