equivalent
Somewhere between print and enunciation, the equivalence between sound and sense can get lost.
It's probably a mistake to think of the two operating systems in terms of equivalence.
Patients often question generic drugs' equivalence to the brand-name drugs.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Similar and the same
adjacent
affinity
akin
alike
allied
ballpark
be no better than (a) somethingidiom
congruent
ditto
equivalency
equivalent
equivalent of something
equivalent to something
equivalently
non-distinctive
not make any differenceidiom
of the kindidiom
one and the sameidiom
respecter
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Examples of equivalence

equivalence
Recall that a feature structure can be represented either as a graph or as a set of path value and path equivalence constraints.
The opposite direction of this implication, that is, the completeness of the logical relations with respect to contextual equivalence remains future work.
The equivalence of (i) and (ii) is straightforward.
Within a paradigm, this is relatively straightforward as there are often direct equivalences.
As these examples show, what we are dealing with here are areas of strong structural equivalence between the two languages.
We give two examples of finite invariant measures on the space of locally finite trees (which is endowed with a natural treed equivalence relation).
The equivalence here is more lax: all we require is that the two trees represent the same mapping.
We use an equivalence on trees instead of worrying about representation.
The equivalence relation that only considers the public interface will be more useful to the programmer than intensional equality, because it is more permissive.
In this section we give the precise statement of this equivalence.
The attributes were allowed to vary across three chosen levels (representing an improvement to or an equivalence to the status quo) across the options.
Given this framework, we can say precisely what is meant by equivalence.
In contrast, in the presence of viscosity, there is no such equivalence.
Their system proves fewer program transformations as equalities, requiring instead the more difficult notion of observational equivalence.
This result is not general, as more realistic population structures do not give this equivalence.
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