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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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... blame; the world laid it all on Luke Raeburn, he was a most convenient scapegoat, and so widely does conventional Christianity differ from the religion founded by Christ it soon became among a certain set almost equivalent to a religious act to promulgate bits of personal scandal about him, flavored, of course, with wordy lamentations as to the views he entertained. Thus, under the name of defenders of religion, conventional ...
— We Two • Edna Lyall

... is nine gallons a minute, or, as it is figured, 1728 cubic feet or 12,960 gallons in twenty-four hours, and 1.50 of a cubic foot a second. This flow would cover ten acres about eighteen inches deep in a year; that is, it would give the land the equivalent of eighteen inches of rain, distributed exactly when and where it was needed, none being wasted, and more serviceable than fifty inches of rainfall as it generally comes. This, with the natural rainfall, is sufficient for citrus fruits and for corn and alfalfa, ...
— Our Italy • Charles Dudley Warner

... sapient, as they'd define the term," Leslie Coombes, in the same screen with Grego, said. "They'd have some equivalent of the talk-and-build-a-fire rule, based on abilities of which we can't ...
— Little Fuzzy • Henry Beam Piper

... amusements. The Volk was the entire community, from the prince on the throne to the village child. Literary education was confined to the clerical orders. The word "ballad," which is, or was, the English equivalent of Volkslied, signifies a dance, and at this early period the bond between dance and song was still intact; the song was danced, and the dance sung to, as it is to this day in the Shetland and Faroe islands, and in parts of Norway and elsewhere. ...
— Wagner's Tristan und Isolde • George Ainslie Hight

... variety to the daily round of bully, biscuit, and jam. The soldier is a generous fellow, and if a child asked a piastre (2-1/2d.) for an egg he got it. The price soon became four to five for a shilling in cash, though the Turks wanted five times that number for an equivalent sum in depreciated paper currency. The law of supply and demand obtained in this old world just as at home, and it became sufficient for a soldier to ask for an article to show he wanted it and would pay almost anything ...
— How Jerusalem Was Won - Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine • W.T. Massey


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