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"Equivalent" in a Sentence (21 examples)
That Japanese word has no equivalent in English.
Do you know the French equivalent of the word?
The two books are equivalent in value.
A trip to America was equivalent to a two-year salary for her.
The ages of the two children put together was equivalent to that of their father.
A meter is not quite equivalent to a yard.
One dollar is equivalent to 110 yen.
We cannot find an English equivalent for the Japanese 'giri'.
His request was equivalent to an order.
Things that modify nouns (adjective, or adjectival equivalent).
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To burn calories, a thirty-minute jog is equivalent to a couple of hamburgers.
For now to serve and to minister, servile and ministerial, are terms equivalent.
A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place. Applying a force tangential to the knob is essentially equivalent to applying one perpendicular to a radial line defining the lever.
Total activity levels in the lowest quartile were equivalent to walking for 49 minutes at roughly 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) per hour daily. Total activity levels in the second-, third- and fourth-highest quartiles were equivalent to 78, 105 and 160 minutes, respectively.
All enumerable sets are equivalent to each other, but not to any finite set.
Equivalent sets should, by rights, have the same "number" of elements. For this reason we sometimes say that equivalent sets have the same cardinality.
Finite sets A and B are equivalent sets only when n(A) = n(B) i.e., the number of elements in A and B are equal.
The equivalence theorem: If both M is equivalent to a subset N₁ of N and N is equivalent to a subset M₁ of M, then the sets M and N are equivalent to each other.
A square may be equivalent to a triangle.
He owned that, if the Test Act were repealed, the Protestants were entitled to an equivalent, and went so far as to suggest several equivalents.
Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern. This difficult effort will be the "moral equivalent of war" — except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not destroy.
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