equivalence

equivalent | American Dictionary

equivalent
adjective
us/ɪˈkwɪv·ə·lənt/
equal to or having the same effect as something else:
A mile is equivalent to about 1.6 kilometers.
 equivalent equationsmathematics
Equivalent equations are two equations (= mathematical statements) that have the same solutions.

equivalent

noun[ C ]us/ɪˈkwɪv·ə·lənt/
A day on the planet Mercury is the equivalent of 176 days on Earth.

equivalent | Business English

equivalent
adjective
uk /ɪˈkwɪvələnt/us
the same in amount, price, size, etc.:
The total consumer electronics market is equivalent to approximately $100 for every person on Earth.
equivalent amount/level/priceUnder the new scheme, companies would agree to pay the pension contributions of their employees, and in return workers would sacrifice an equivalent amount from their salary.
equivalent
noun[ C,usually singular ]
uk /ɪˈkwɪvələnt/us
something that is the same amount, price, size, etc. as something else or has the same purpose as something else:
The FSA has spoken to its New York equivalent, the SEC, regarding the takeover.
The price of a barrel of crude oil in the early 1980s went as high as $40 (the equivalent of $80 today).

equivalence

noun[ U ] formal/ɪˈkwɪvələns/
The plan requires national systems to achieve equivalence to World Bank standards.

Examples of equivalent

equivalent
They should not exceed in size the equivalent of one page of print.
On p. 102, with regard to the regulation of carbon emissions, the chapter says that a tax approach and an emission permits approach are equivalent.
A more appropriate interpretation is that the annuity swap represents a market certainty equivalent to the option.
Note, however, that our numerical bounds frequently get better if multiple edges are replaced by a single equivalent edge.
The class of quasirandom graphs is defined by certain equivalent graph properties possessed by random graphs.
This largely determined the maximum of ten hectares (arable equivalent) and ensured that only symbolic holdings would be given to farm workers lacking ownership claims.
At shorter, regional scales (equivalent to 10-15 times the ice thickness), however, the relationship was less convincing.
Thus, though there is a straightforward diphthongal realization for this vowel, there is also a minority realization which is realizationally equivalent to a long monophthong.
However, even though not significant, the magnitude of the overall difference was equivalent to that recorded in the previous correlational studies.
Equivalent realizations under the same experimental conditions are almost identical and individual trajectories compare well with theory.
This similarity yields equivalent performance in tasks where performance is dependent on the new semantic representation.
Thus, every well-typed program can be translated to an equivalent stream-processing program.
For a planting density of 2250 trees ha71, this is equivalent to 3150 kg ha71.
This has created an institutional vacuum where no equivalent rural institutions have emerged to take charge of the functions undertaken by the communidades.
His spellings give clear evidence of the variation in his own speech, with raised, unraised and even lowered equivalents of the short front vowels.
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carbon dioxide equivalent
The campus saved $100,000 in utility costs and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 378 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent during the campaign.
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