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Equivalent   /ɪkwˈɪvələnt/   Listen
Equivalent

adjective
1.
Being essentially equal to something.  Synonym: tantamount.  "A wish that was equivalent to a command" , "His statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt"
noun
1.
A person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc.
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.  Synonyms: combining weight, eq, equivalent weight.



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"Equivalent" Quotes from Famous Books



... question about Scaliger's quadrature being wrong, in the eyes of geometers at least: and he states that Clavius mortified him {112} extremely by showing that it made the circle less than its inscribed dodecagon, which is, of course, equivalent to asserting that a straight line is not always the shortest distance between two points. Did Clavius show this? No, it was Scaliger himself who showed it, boasted of it, and declared it to be a "noble paradox" that a theorem false in geometry is true in arithmetic; a thing, ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan
... moreover, the international relations between different peoples are not such as to make their acceptance possible. Disarmament imposed on one nation by another in circumstances threatening its security would be equivalent to a ...
— The Kingdom of God is within you • Leo Tolstoy
... the theatre. Macready was one of his innermost circle, and he had other friends on the stage. Indeed there were moments in his life when it seemed that the genius of the novelist might be lost to the world, which would have found but a sorry equivalent in one more actor of talent on the stage, however brilliant that talent was. But the main current of his life went on in London with diligent application to the book or books in hand; or at Broadstairs, where Dickens made holiday in true English fashion ...
— Victorian Worthies - Sixteen Biographies • George Henry Blore
... Tree is the most solemn oath among the dwarfs—it is equivalent to swearing on the Bible with us. How Karl knew this, he did not know; it came to him on the inspiration of the minute. Perhaps his grandmother had told him stories in his childhood about the dwarf men, in which ...
— Fairy Tales from the German Forests • Margaret Arndt
... acceptance as an empirical fact; but many of the leading lights of chemistry still looked askance at Dalton's explanation of this law. Thus Wollaston, though from the first he inclined to acceptance of the Daltonian view, cautiously suggested that it would be well to use the non-committal word "equivalent" instead of "atom"; and Davy, for a similar reason, in his book of 1812, speaks only of "proportions," binding himself to no theory as to what might be the ...
— A History of Science, Volume 4(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams


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