equivalent
/ɪˈkwɪvələnt/ adjective C1- Similar 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.
- Relating to the corresponding elements of an equivalence relation.
- Of two categories, (informally) such that one is essentially a relabeling of the other; (formally) related by a pair of functors such the composition of the one with the other is naturally isomorphic to the identity functor.
- Having the equal ability to combine.
- Of a map, equal-area.
- Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; applied to magnitudes. · A square may be equivalent to a triangle.
From the library
But Andrea, turning towards them, winked his eyes, rolled his tongue around his cheeks, and smacked his lips in a manner equivalent to a hundred words among the bandits when forced to be silent.
“Is he then advancing on Paris?” The minister of police maintained a silence which was equivalent to a complete avowal.
“You must decide for yourself,” said Elizabeth; “and if, upon mature deliberation, you find that the misery of disobliging his two sisters is more than equivalent to the happiness of being his wife, I advise you, by all means, to refuse him.”
Translate them word for word and you sound absurd; stop to hunt for an equivalent and you fall hopelessly behind.
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