- equal in value, amount, meaning, importance, etc.
- 250 grams or an equivalent amount in ounces
- the price we would pay elsewhere for a broadly equivalent house
- equivalent to something Eight kilometres is roughly equivalent to five miles.
- The new regulation was seen as equivalent to censorship.
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Word Originlate Middle English (describing persons who were equal in power or rank): via Old French from late Latin aequivalent- ‘being of equal worth’, from the verb aequivalere, from aequi- ‘equally’ + valere ‘be worth’.Definitions on the go
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