equivalent

equivalent is a 10-letter English word with 10 senses as adjective, noun, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Equal in wortir or value, force, power, effect, import, and the like; alike in significance and value; of the same import or meaning. Face value is 22 in Scrabble and 26 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 22 · Words With Friends 26 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Equal in wortir or value, force, power, effect, import, and the like; alike in significance and value; of the same import or meaning.
2. adjective. Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; -- applied to magnitudes; as, a square may be equivalent to a triangle.
3. adjective. Contemporaneous in origin; as, the equivalent strata of different countries.
4. noun. Something equivalent; that which is equal in value, worth, weight, or force; as, to offer an equivalent for damage done.
5. noun. That comparative quantity by weight of an element which possesses the same chemical value as other elements, as determined by actual experiment and reference to the same standard. Specifically: (a) The comparative proportions by which one element replaces another in any particular compound; thus, as zinc replaces hydrogen in hydrochloric acid, their equivalents are 32.5 and 1. (b) The combining proportion by weight of a substance, or the number expressing this proportion, in any particular compound; as, the equivalents of hydrogen and oxygen in water are respectively 1 and 8, and in hydric dioxide 1 and 16.
6. noun. A combining unit, whether an atom, a radical, or a molecule; as, in acid salt two or more equivalents of acid unite with one or more equivalents of base.
7. transitive verb. To make the equivalent to; to equal; equivalence.
8. noun. 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: eq

9. noun. a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc

   "send two dollars or the equivalent in stamps"

10. adjective. being essentially equal to something

    "it was as good as gold"

    "a wish that was equivalent to a command"

    Synonyms: tantamount

Synonyms

eq, tantamount

Common word forms

equivalents, equivalently

Words from these letters

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