equivalent

Meanings

Plural: equivalents

Noun

• 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"
• 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
• Anything that is virtually equal to something else, or has the same value, force, etc.
• An equivalent weight.

Adjective Satellite

• being essentially equal to something
  • "a wish that was equivalent to a command"

Adj

• Similar or identical in value, meaning or effect; virtually equal.
• Of two sets, having a one-to-one correspondence.
• 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.

Verb

• To make equivalent to; to equal.

Synonyms

combining weight, eq, equinumerous, equivalent weight, on a par, tantamount

Anagrams of equivalent