Equivalent
[ɪ'kwɪv(ə)l(ə)nt] or [ɪ'kwɪvələnt]
Definition
(noun.) 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.
(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'.
(adj.) 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' .
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Definition
(a.) Equal in wortir or value, force, power, effect, import, and the like; alike in significance and value; of the same import or meaning.
(a.) Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; -- applied to magnitudes; as, a square may be equivalent to a triangle.
(a.) Contemporaneous in origin; as, the equivalent strata of different countries.
(n.) Something equivalent; that which is equal in value, worth, weight, or force; as, to offer an equivalent for damage done.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To make the equivalent to; to equal; equivalence.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Equal, commensurate, tantamount, EQUIPOLLENT.[2]. Synonymous, interchangeable, of the same meaning or import.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Equiponderant, equipollent
ANT:Unequal, unequivalent
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Definition
adj. equal in value power meaning &c.—n. a thing equivalent.—n. Equiv′alence.—adv. Equiv′alently.
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Examples
- To hang out a sign saying Come right in; there is no one at home is not the equivalent of hospitality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Taking the horse power as the equivalent of the work of five men, the work of steam is equivalent to that of a population of 500,000,000 working men. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In other words a force of 1 at a distance of 24 inches (2 feet) is equivalent to a force of 4 at a distance of 6 inches. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- We may note one or two points of difference from the equivalent life of the nomadic Semites. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The first two weeks after her return represented to Mrs. Peniston the domestic equivalent of a religious retreat. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- But upon the greater part of goods, those duties are equivalent to a prohibition. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Such an arrangement is equivalent to wheel and axle (Fig. 112); the capstan used on shipboard for raising the anchor has the same principle. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Thinking is thus equivalent to an explicit rendering of the intelligent element in our experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- James made it articulate in his essay on The Moral Equivalent of War. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I believe confession, in your case, would be half equivalent to cure. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- If a soft iron nail (Fig. 212) or its equivalent is slipped within the coil, the lifting and attractive power of the coil is increased, and comparatively heavy weights can be lifted. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- She knew it was equivalent to accepting Gerald Crich as a lover. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The self-raising flour, so widely advertised by grocers, is flour in which these ingredients or their equivalent have been mixed by the manufacturer. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Even in using this word Hun as a general equivalent for the Hiung-nu, we step on to controversial ground. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I'll not stand you an inch in the stead of a seraglio, I said; so don't consider me an equivalent for one. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- These Jacobins were the equivalents of the American radicals, men with untrammelled advanced ideas. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The British Ministry of Reconstruction and its foreign equivalents were exposed as a soothing sham. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is impossible that it should have any success in these tasks without educational equivalents as to what to do and what not to do. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The use of electrical current in twelve principal cities in the United States was distributed in 1898 as follows: Lamps, arcs, and motors in sixteen candle power equivalents. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Semitic peoples, we may point out here, are to this day _counting peoples_ strong in their sense of equivalents and reparation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Educational Equivalents. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The educational equivalents of this doctrine in the uses made of pleasurable rewards and painful penalties are only too obvious. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This is an obvious truism, which however gains meaning when translated into educational equivalents. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As a very natural consequence of such development, the company by 1902 had 420 miles of underground system supplying installation amounting to 1,928,090 fifty-watt equivalents. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- To serve the people means to provide it with services--with clean streets and water, with education, with opportunity, with beneficent channels for its desires, with moral equivalents for evil. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A greater number of new equivalents, of some kind or other, must have been presented to them to be exchanged for the surplus produce of that industry. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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