equivalent
adjEtymology
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).
- derived from efenmete
- derived from aequivalentem
Definitions
Similar or identical in value, meaning or effect
Similar or identical in value, meaning or effect; virtually equal.
- 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.
Of two sets, having a one-to-one correspondence.
- 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.
Relating to the corresponding elements of an equivalence relation.
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Of two categories, (informally) such that one is essentially a relabeling of the other
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
Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; applied to magnitudes.
- A square may be equivalent to a triangle.
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- He owned that, if the Test Act were repealed, the Protestants were entitled to an equivalent, and went so far as to suggest several equivalents.
An equivalent weight.
To make equivalent to
To make equivalent to; to equal.
The neighborhood
Derived
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