equivalent
Similar or identical in value, meaning or effect; virtually equal.
Example
“To burn calories, a thirty-minute jog is equivalent to a couple of hamburgers.”
Other meanings
Of two sets, having a one-to-one correspondence.
Relating to the corresponding elements of an equivalence relation.
Related words
- car equivalent unit
- tissue equivalent material
- gramme equivalent
- biequivalent
- cyberequivalent
- equivalentist
- inequivalent
- microequivalent
- milliequivalent
- nanoequivalent
- nonequivalent
- osmoequivalent
Example sentences
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