EQUIVALENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does equivalent mean? 

• EQUIVALENT (noun)
  The noun EQUIVALENT has 2 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: EQUIVALENT used as a noun is rare.

• EQUIVALENT (adjective)
  The adjective EQUIVALENT has 1 sense:

1. being essentially equal to something

  Familiarity information: EQUIVALENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EQUIVALENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

send two dollars or the equivalent in stamps

Hypernyms ("equivalent" is a kind of...):

cognition; knowledge; noesis (the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "equivalent"):

counterpart; opposite number; vis-a-vis (a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another)

replacement; substitute (a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another)

Derivation:

equivalent (being essentially equal to something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

combining weight; eq; equivalent; equivalent weight

Hypernyms ("equivalent" is a kind of...):

atomic mass; atomic weight; relative atomic mass ((chemistry) the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units)

• EQUIVALENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being essentially equal to something

Synonyms:

equivalent; tantamount

Context example:

his statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt

Similar:

equal (having the same quantity, value, or measure as another)

Derivation:

equivalence (essential equality and interchangeability)

equivalent (a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc)

 Context examples 

A unit of relative amount of substance content equivalent to the content at which one milligram of mixture contains one thousandth of an equivalent of a component.

(Milliequivalent per Milligram, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of relative amount of substance content equivalent to the content at which one millionth of a gram of mixture contains one thousandth of an equivalent of a component.

(Milliequivalent per Microgram, NCI Thesaurus)

The value should not be smaller than the given value excluding the given value, which is equivalent to "greater than".

(Greater Than, Food and Drug Administration)

A unit of relative amount of substance content equivalent to the content at which one kilogram of mixture contains one thousandth of an equivalent of a component.

(Milliequivalent per Kilogram, NCI Thesaurus)

For a long time, people thought CAVD was just the valvular equivalent of atherosclerosis.

(New Hope for Stopping An Understudied Heart Disease in Its Tracks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A concentration unit measured as a number of one thousandth of an equivalent weight per millimole of substance.

(Milliequivalent per Milliimole, NCI Thesaurus)

The babies were pre-term and full-term, ranging from 30 to 42 weeks gestational age (equivalent), so their development could reflect what's typical in the last trimester of pregnancy.

(Baby Hiccups Key to Brain Development, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The scientist explained that 30 days in the life of an animal are equivalent to two to four years in the life of a human being.

(Zika virus found to harm adults’ memory and motor system, Agência Brasil/EBC)

The academic standard is equivalent to Ph.D.

(Doctor of Dental Medicine, NCI Thesaurus)

It is located roughly three billion kilometres from the central star, roughly equivalent to the distance between Uranus and the Sun.

(First Confirmed Image of Newborn Planet, ESO)