equivalent
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
equivalent /ɪˈkwɪv(ə)l(ə)nt/
▶adjective
- 1 equal in value, amount, function, meaning, etc.
■ (equivalent to) having the same or a similar effect as.
- 2 Mathematics belonging to the same equivalence class.
- 1 a person or thing that is equivalent to another.
- 2 (also equivalent weight) Chemistry the mass of a particular substance that can combine with or displace one gram of hydrogen or eight grams of oxygen, used in expressing combining powers of elements.
– derivatives
equivalently adverb.
equivalently adverb.
– origin ME: via OFr. from late L. aequivalent-, aequivalere ‘be of equal worth’.
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-ade
- air mile
- ambivalent
- amount
- answer
- apartheid
- areology
- Balthazar
- bar
- bath
- begum
- billion
- bloomer
- bombardier
- British
- Briton
- brother
- bushel
- butt
- capacitance
- carat
- carbon offsetting
- -cephalous
- Chino-
- coercivity
- comparable
- comparison
- component
- constitute
- conversion factor
- correspond
- countervalue
- cowgirl
- cran
- dalton
- degree
- dictionary
- division
- dose equivalent
- drachm
- duchess
- duodenum
- eight
- eighteen
- eighty
- eleven
- enthalpy
- equal
- equate
- equivalence
