equivalent
Similar or identical in value, meaning or effect; virtually equal.
Adjective 4 meanings
Similar or identical in value, meaning or effect; virtually equal.
“To burn calories, a thirty-minute jog is equivalent to a couple of hamburgers.”
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.
Noun 2 meanings
Anything that is virtually equal to something else, or has the same value, force, etc.
An equivalent weight.
Verb 1 meaning
To make equivalent to; to equal.
Etymology
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).
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EQUIVALENT at a glance
EQUIVALENT has 10 letters and scores 22 points in Scrabble (E 1 + Q 10 + U 1 + I 1 + V 4 + A 1 + L 1 + E 1 + N 1 + T 1) and 26 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,929 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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