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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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... gesture spoke for itself; and, besides, poor Phelim cowered behind her with an air that caused a word and sign to pass round, which the captives found was equivalent to innocent or imbecile; and the Mohammedan respect and tenderness for the demented spared him all further violence or molestation, except that he was lost and miserable without the attentions of his foster-brother; and indeed the shocks he had undergone seemed to have mobbed ...
— A Modern Telemachus • Charlotte M. Yonge
... proportions which contribute best to the end desired; the readiness for impulsive attachments that had put him into the leading of others, has underneath it a base of truthfulness on which at last he rests in safety; the practical man is the outcome of the fanciful youth; and a more than equivalent for the graces of his visionary days, is found in the active sympathies that life has opened to him. Many experiences have come within its range, and his heart has had room for all. Our interest in him cannot but be increased by knowing how much he expresses ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster
... his telling her have been equivalent to a declaration of love?" questioned he, looking at the signet-ring on the little finger of ...
— The Cardinal's Snuff-Box • Henry Harland
... were entirely dependent on her, and her richness and her frankness combined urged her to make fatiguingly frequent allusions to the Estcourt poverty. Except for their bad taste her husband did not mind these allusions much, for he considered that he had given her a full equivalent for her money in bestowing his name on a person who had practically none: he was Sir Peter Estcourt of the Devonshire Estcourts, and she was a Dobbs of Birmingham. Besides, he was a philosopher, and philosophers never mind anything. But ...
— The Benefactress • Elizabeth Beauchamp
... solid gold. Silver solder composed the centre. But as the baser metal could not be detected by simple inspection or weighing, Mr. Grant felt secure in the cheat he had practised; and, quieted his conscience by assuming that he had given a full equivalent for the ...
— Lessons in Life, For All Who Will Read Them • T. S. Arthur


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