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[ noun ] a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc
Examples : "send two dollars or the equivalent in stamps" Used in print (High Fidelity, 11:10...)In these readings , the double_bass is either kept discreetly in the background , or it is dressed in clown 's attire - the musical equivalent of a bull_in_a_china_shop . (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)Freud probably contributed more_than anyone else to the understanding of dreams , enabling us to recognize their equivalents in our wakeful thoughts . Every dream , and this is true of a mental_image of any type even though it may be readily interpreted into its equivalent of wakeful thought , is a psychic_phenomenon for which no explanation is available . (S. Idell Pyle, et al., Onsets, Completions, and...)It is convenient to classify a child 's onset ages and completion ages as `` advanced '' , `` moderate '' ( modal ) , or `` delayed '' according_to whether the child 's age equivalent `` dots '' appeared to the left of , upon , or to the right of the appropriate short transverse line . (Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)For_example , when the film is only four minutes old , Neitzbohr refers to a small , Victorian piano_stool as `` Wilhelmina '' , and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano_stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name , of_course , was Doris ( the English equivalent , when passed_through middle Gaelic derivations , of Wilhelmina ) . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] equal in amount or value
Examples "like amounts" "equivalent amounts" "the same amount" "gave one six blows and the other a like number" "an equal number" "the same number" Used in print (A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)( On deduction of one-eighth from 3.46 , the stem / item rate becomes 3.03 against 2.75 in equivalent number of languages . ) Related terms |
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[ adjective ] essentially equal
Examples "women are paid less than men doing equivalent work" Used in print (Ralph B. Long. The Sentence and Its Parts: A...)When I have instructions to leave is equivalent in meaning to I have instructions that I am to leave this place , dominant stress is ordinarily on leave . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] being essentially equal to something
Synonyms Examples "it was as good as gold" "a wish that was equivalent to a command" "his statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (chemistry) the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen
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