LekhoriLekhoriSimilar 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.
All enumerable sets are equivalent to each other, but not to any finite set.
Relating to the corresponding elements of an equivalence relation.
Anything that is virtually equal to something else, or has the same value, force, etc.
He owned that, if the Test Act were repealed, the Protestants were entitled to an equivalent, and went so far as to suggest several equivalents.
To make equivalent to; to equal.
From Latin aequivalentem, accusative singular of aequivalēns, present active participle of aequivaleō (“I am equivalent, have equal power”). By surface analysis, equi- + -valent.
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An equivalent weight.