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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
equivalent
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an exact equivalent (=something that has exactly the same meaning, purpose, value etc as something else)
▪ There is no exact equivalent in English for the phrase.
broadly similar/comparable/equivalent etc
▪ We reached broadly similar conclusions.
roughly equal/comparable/equivalent
▪ two rocks of roughly equal size
the modern equivalent of sth (=something with the same importance or purpose as something from the past)
▪ In their own minds they are the modern equivalent of highwaymen.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
approximately
▪ Our finding also confirms previous reports that postprandial serum gastrin consists of approximately equivalent concentrations of G17 and G34.
▪ This amount was approximately equivalent to half of their annual salary, depending on age and position held.
broadly
▪ This is in accordance with the Council's long standing policy to maintain reserves broadly equivalent to three months' core activity expenditure.
▪ It would provide the maximum area of water within the engineering constraints and would be broadly equivalent to mean high water mark.
exactly
▪ And yet Aronofsky, with relentless, almost aesthetic cruelty, shows her fate as exactly equivalent to her son's.
▪ Table 5.5 presents these coefficients, estimated using ordinary least squares, for exactly equivalent models to those reported in section 5.6.
▪ The attribute pair citing.text.id and cited.text.id is exactly equivalent to ref.id defined earlier in the Taxis-like symbolic key definition of Figure 2.
▪ The statement is exactly equivalent to Leading spaces will be removed from the input line, but not trailing spaces.
roughly
▪ That is roughly equivalent to the gross global product of Earth for the next thirty thousand years.
▪ Consequently, they are roughly equivalent to the transracially adopted children.
▪ Her snack bar was roughly equivalent to a trust fund.
▪ This was roughly equivalent to an investment of 1.25 pence for every unit of electricity ever generated by nuclear power in Britain.
▪ Being told that one must change to survive is roughly equivalent to being told that one will burn in hell.
▪ Wilson aides said the governor thought that roughly equivalent comparisons could be made between schools and districts using different tests.
▪ The rate of withdrawal over natural replenishment is now roughly equivalent to the flow of the Colorado River.
■ NOUN
amount
▪ Control incubations used equivalent amounts of phosphatidylcholine vesicles without cholesteryl oleate.
▪ First, they wanted at least an equivalent amount of compensatory land.
▪ The buyer receives a further 100 from the seller who has to pay an equivalent amount as variation margin.
▪ Real team members always do equivalent amounts of real work beyond and between meetings where things are discussed and decided.
▪ The intention is that over extended periods of time equivalent machines receive an equivalent amount of resource.
▪ That's the equivalent amount of time that is spent in the average household washing up in one year.
▪ My husband did not have enough marks to pay the bill, so he offered to pay the equivalent amount in Sterling.
▪ His intention to repay the equivalent amount was relevant to dishonesty, not to the intention permanently to deprive.
effect
▪ If so, an equivalent effect can be expected in latent inhibition.
figures
▪ The equivalent figures for the trip to Manchester were eighty, forty-five and less than thirty hours.
▪ The equivalent figures for manual workers other than general labourers show a reverse pattern.
▪ For seventeen year olds the equivalent figures are 70 and 44 percent.
▪ The equivalent figures for female workers were £68 and £83 respectively.
▪ No equivalent figures are given for Cramlington because of the irrelevance of the information given for Cramlington before the late 1970s.
▪ Oil equivalent figures referred to in this document are based on 6,000 cubic feet of gas equalling one barrel of oil equivalent.
▪ The equivalent figures in Newham were 4l, with 25 closed and 16 open.
qualification
▪ Direct entry to masters' courses is normally limited to those with good honours degrees or equivalent qualifications.
▪ Some 22 percent of councillors had a degree or equivalent qualification compared to only 5 percent of the general population.
▪ Applicants should have a degree or equivalent qualification in chemistry and relevant post-graduate experience or training in analytical chemistry.
value
▪ Similarly, managers and directors appeared to share an equivalent value orientation to the fans and were more receptive to their opinions.
▪ The equivalent value for women suggests a positively sloped aggregate labour supply curve.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He was fined $50 but given the choice of doing the equivalent amount of community work.
▪ His monthly US salary is equivalent to a year's pay here in Mexico.
▪ If these prizes are not in stock we will send you an equivalent gift of the same value.
▪ no more than 12 bottles of beer or an equivalent amount of alcohol
▪ The US Congress is roughly equivalent to the British Parliament.
▪ The volcanic eruption on Krakatoa had an explosive power equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT.
▪ Unemployed workers receive welfare payments and rent assistance equivalent to 50% of their usual income.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any transaction involving two groups or two equivalent individuals is regarded as a negotiation rather than an interview.
▪ By contrast, a small saving in purchasing costs can be worth considerably more in terms of equivalent sales value. 9.
▪ The equivalent figure for women was 31 percent in 1972 and 63 percent in 1983.
▪ The equivalent figures in Newham were 4l, with 25 closed and 16 open.
▪ There is no equivalent history of the Liberal party during this period.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
exact
▪ There is no exact equivalent of Taking the Side of the Other.
▪ Both printed and online forms of the bibliography are exact equivalents when conducting author searches.
▪ The basic spiritual treatment of eating disorders is the exact equivalent of that for Chemical Dependency.
▪ Copper pipe - actual sizes Mathematicians among you will notice that these are, in fact, not exact equivalents.
human
▪ No human equivalent of the endogenous mouse retroviral superantigens has yet been described.
▪ She had chosen for herself the human equivalent of sackcloth and ashes, and she denounced herself for a masochist.
modern
▪ There were any number of cranes, cars and mechanical arms fashioned from the modern equivalents of Meccano.
▪ I guess the modern equivalent of the actual party would be that Reform joke Ross Perot threw together.
▪ These cargo planes are the modern equivalents of the tramp steamer.
▪ These profit opportunities are the modern equivalent of finding El Doradothe city of gold.
▪ I have known rocks become oblivious to both the old type of scarecrow and its modern equivalent, the automatic banger.
▪ The honest farm-lad building stoops of corn - or the modern equivalent.
▪ Who knows a modern equivalent of the Oxford three-quarter line may be waiting to be found.
▪ Some of Sydney's residents are apprehensive about the prospect of a modern equivalent of Elis's tumult.
near
▪ On dry land the nearest equivalents of the filter-feeders are the grazers.
▪ Next to the speaking engagement, the nearest legal equivalent to the straight cash bribe is the campaign contribution.
▪ The Boots Booklovers Library, the nearest equivalent, survived until the sixties; the branch in Exeter closed in 1965.
▪ The Touchmaster doesn't seem to suffer from the major problem faced by its nearest equivalent, the Koala-pad in this respect.
▪ The nearest equivalent at the time was Peter Hain's Young Liberals.
▪ If that's how oyster's flavoured, it's nearest equivalent is brine.
■ NOUN
cash
▪ These investments have therefore been treated as cash equivalents in preparing the cash flow statement reflecting the liquid nature of the investments.
▪ Horsham has the right to deliver either the shares or their cash equivalent.
▪ Once again, if the individual is offered the cash equivalent the new budget line is 45.
▪ Therefore net cash balances comprise cash and cash equivalents together with money market deposits.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the nearest thing/equivalent to sth
▪ A little bit of sleep was the nearest thing to consolation left for people like us.
▪ Here was perhaps the nearest thing to alchemy that had ever been seen in the field of politics.
▪ I think she and Phil were the nearest thing to soccer hooligans that canoeing can produce.
▪ It was the nearest thing to a coherent defence system yet seen at Verdun.
▪ So let us accept that I am the nearest thing to a father that Nana has available.
▪ Still, as Jane belonged nowhere, Sussex became the nearest thing to home.
▪ That and the fact that it lost faith in the nearest thing to a charismatic it had had since Rose Fox.
▪ The United Nations General Assembly has been called the nearest thing to a world parliament.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Some Thai words have no English equivalents.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A record is an ordered collection of data items and/or data aggregates, the equivalent of a tuple.
▪ It was the equivalent of about £1500 million at 1980's values, although greater than that in relation to the size of the economy.
▪ Moving the game westward and southward follows a grand historic progression, a sports equivalent of Manifest Destiny.
▪ The numerical score may be either an age equivalent or a standardised score.
▪ The purchase of a carcass would be the equivalent of the purchase of two sides of beef.
▪ They want the motoring equivalent of Carlsberg Special.
▪ Trying to do so is the equivalent of adding oranges and lemons.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Equivalent

Equivalent \E*quiv"a*lent\, v. t. To make the equivalent to; to equal; equivalence. [R.]

Equivalent

Equivalent \E*quiv"a*lent\ ([-e]*kw[i^]v"[.a]*lent), a. [L. aequivalens, -entis, p. pr. of aequivalere to have equal power; aequus equal + valere to be strong, be worth: cf. F.

  1. Equal in worth or value, force, power, effect, import, and the like; alike in significance and value; of the same import or meaning.

    For now to serve and to minister, servile and ministerial, are terms equivalent.
    --South.

  2. (Geom.) Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; -- applied to magnitudes; as, a square may be equivalent to a triangle.

  3. (Geol.) Contemporaneous in origin; as, the equivalent strata of different countries.

Equivalent

Equivalent \E*quiv"a*lent\ ([-e]*kw[i^]v"[.a]*lent), n.

  1. Something equivalent; that which is equal in value, worth, weight, or force; as, to offer an equivalent for damage done.

    He owned that, if the Test Act were repealed, the Protestants were entitled to some equivalent. . . . During some weeks the word equivalent, then lately imported from France, was in the mouths of all the coffeehouse orators.
    --Macaulay.

  2. (Chem.) That comparative quantity by weight of an element which possesses the same chemical value as other elements, as determined by actual experiment and reference to the same standard. Specifically: (a) The comparative proportions by which one element replaces another in any particular compound; thus, as zinc replaces hydrogen in hydrochloric acid, their equivalents are 32.5 and

    1. (b) The combining proportion by weight of a substance, or the number expressing this proportion, in any particular compound; as, the equivalents of hydrogen and oxygen in water are respectively 1 and 8, and in hydric dioxide 1 and 16.

      Note: This term was adopted by Wollaston to avoid using the conjectural expression atomic weight, with which, however, for a time it was practically synonymous. The attempt to limit the term to the meaning of a universally comparative combining weight failed, because of the possibility of several compounds of the substances by reason of the variation in combining power which most elements exhibit. The equivalent was really identical with, or a multiple of submultiple of, the atomic weight.

  3. (Chem.) A combining unit, whether an atom, a radical, or a molecule; as, in acid salt two or more equivalents of acid unite with one or more equivalents of base.

    Mechanical equivalent of heat (Physics), originally defined as the number of units of work which the unit of heat can perform, equivalent to the mechanical energy which must be expended to raise the temperature of a pound of water one degree Fahrenheit; later this value was defined as one British thermal unit (B.t.u). Its value was found by Joule to be 772 foot pounds; later measurements give the value as 777.65 foot-pounds, equivalent to 107.5 kg-meters. This value was originally called Joule's equivalent, but the modern Joule is defined differently, being 10^ 7 ergs. The B.t.u. is now given as 1,05

  4. 35 absolute Joules, and therefore 1 calorie (the amount of heat needed to raise one gram of water one degree centigrade) is equivalent to 4.186 Joules.

    Note: The original definition of the Mechanical equivalent of heat in the 1913 Webster was as below. The difference between foot pounds and kilogram-meters ("on the centigrade scale") is puzzling as it should be a factor of 7.23, and the figure given for kilogram-meters may be a mistaken misinterpretation of the report. -- PJC: The number of units of work which the unit of heat can perform; the mechanical energy which must be expended to raise the temperature of a unit weight of water from 0[deg] C. to 1[deg] C., or from 32[deg] F. to 33[deg] F. The term was introduced by Dr. Mayer of Heilbronn. Its value was found by Joule to be 1390 foot pounds upon the Centigrade, or 772 foot pounds upon the Fahrenheit, thermometric scale, whence it is often called Joule's equivalent, and represented by the symbol J. This is equal to 424 kilogram meters (Centigrade scale). A more recent determination by Professor Rowland gives the value 426.9 kilogram meters, for the latitude of Baltimore.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
equivalent

early 15c., from Middle French equivalent and directly from Late Latin aequivalentem (nominative aequivalens) "equivalent," present participle of aequivalere "be equivalent," from Latin aequus "equal" (see equal (adj.)) + valere "be well, be worth" (see valiant). As a noun from c.1500, "that which is equal or corresponds to." Related: Equivalently.

Wiktionary
equivalent

  1. similar or identical in value, meaning or effect; virtually equal. n. 1 Anything that is virtually equal to something else, or has the same value, force, etc. 2 (context chemistry English) An equivalent weight. v

  2. (context transitive English) To make equivalent to; to equal.

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WordNet
equivalent

  1. adj. equal in amount or value; "like amounts"; "equivalent amounts"; "the same amount"; "gave one six blows and the other a like number"; "an equal number"; "the same number" [syn: like, equal, same] [ant: unlike]

  2. being essentially equal to something; "it was as good as gold"; "a wish that was equivalent to a command"; "his statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt" [syn: tantamount(p)]

equivalent

  1. n. a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc; "send two dollars or the equivalent in stamps"

  2. 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 [syn: equivalent weight, combining weight, eq]

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Wikipedia
Equivalent (chemistry)

The Equivalent (symbol: Eq), was an archaic unit used in chemistry and the biological sciences in the era before chemical formulas and equations were known. It represented the quantity of a substance which reacted exactly with (or was equivalent to) an arbitrarily fixed quantity of another substance in a particular reaction. As knowledge increased, the theoretical basis for these 'chemical equivalents' became understood and the need for a common standard using the concept of Equivalent weights developed. The equivalent weight of a chemical element is the gram atomic weight divided by its valence. The equivalent can also be formally defined through the amount of substance which will either:

Given this definition, an equivalent may also be defined as the number of moles of a given ion in a solution multiplied by the valence of that ion. So, if 1 mol of NaCl and 1 mol of CaCl are dissolved in a solution, there is 1 Eq Na, 2 Eq Ca, and 3 Eq Cl in that solution. (Note that the valence of Ca is 2, so for that ion you have 1 mole and 2 equivalents.)

The mass of one equivalent of a substance is called its equivalent weight.

A historical definition, used especially for the chemical elements, describes an equivalent as the amount of a substance that will react with of hydrogen, or with of oxygen, or with of chlorine, or displaces any of the three.

In practice, the amount of a substance in equivalents often has a very small magnitude, so it is frequently described in terms of milliequivalents (meq or mEq), the prefix milli denoting that the measure has been multiplied by 1000. Very often, the measure is used in terms of milliequivalents of solute per litre of solvent (or milliNormal, where ). This is especially common for measurement of compounds in biological fluids; for instance, the healthy level of potassium in the blood of a human is defined between 3.5 and 5.0 meq/L.

A certain amount of univalent ions provides the same amount of equivalents while the same amount of divalent ions provides twice the amount of equivalents. For example, 1 mmol of Na is equal 1 meq, while 1 mmol of Ca is equal 2 meq.

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Usage examples of "equivalent".

To the suspension is then added slowly a solution of about two equivalents of trifluoroacetic anhydride dissolved in acetonitrile and previously cooled to about -20 degrees C.

Like many blacks from their home country-his and hers-for whom English and Afrikaans are lingue franche, not mother tongues, he used the Afrikaans phrase translated literally, instead of the English equivalent.

After an unsuccessful year at the University of Toronto, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force but was never promoted beyond Leading Aircraftman, the equivalent of an army lance-corporal, spending most of his time as an editorial assistant on Wings Abroad, a propaganda weekly.

One such bomb, Admiral Leahy told Albright, would have an explosive force equivalent to that of twenty thousand tons of trinitrotoluene, better known as TNT.

As things now stood, the other could appear in public and perform the amoeboid equivalent of thumbing his nose at the Hunter without any risk to itself.

Hilmaran Kingdom in Arcana whose territory includes the equivalent of Guyana, Surinam, and French Guiana.

I had to pull every string I knew, behind the scenes, to get the geniuses at JPL to send their two Viking landers to the Martian equivalents of Death Valley and the Atacama Desert in Chile.

Asked to explain his sudden possession of 100,000 francs at a moment when he was apparently without a penny, he repeated his statement that Auguste had given him the capital sum as an equivalent for an income of 4,000 francs which his brother had intended to leave him.

The quality was not nearly as good as the European equivalent but that did not matter because guns were considered merely a novelty and, for a long time, used only for hunting-and even for that bows were far more accurate.

France, Italy, where, by the way, the Camorrist type is the equivalent for our New York gangster.

In making this point, he was simultaneously rejecting the Cartesian, theological notion of all activities of the human soul occurring outside of nature and the materialist premise that subjective states either do not exist or else must be equivalent to objective, physical processes.

Our ceramic cassegrain lasers were far superior to the nearest Terran equivalents, though not many Venerians cared to use weapons so heavy and unpleasant for the shooter.

The blood test, analyzed at speed because of the bang on my head, had revealed a level of 290 milligrams of alcohol per centiliter of blood, which, I had been assured, meant that I had drunk the equivalent of at least half a bottle of spirits during the preceding few hours.

An explanation being solicited, the fact was revealed that there was a man inside who made a practice of buying twelve tickets for a dollar, then seating himself near the bell, he would take the fares of every one and give the driver a ticket for each, that is, receive ten cents and give the driver the equivalent of eight and one-third cents, thereby making ten cents on every six passengers.

Kelvin and Rudolf Clausius were formulating two versions of the second law of thermodynamics, versions later shown to be equivalent, and both of which were taken to mean: the universe is running down.