| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. In an equal manner.[Websters]
2. In a similar, equal or homologous manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In a parallel or analogous manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In an identical, tantamount or homogeneous manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a reciprocal or opposite manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In an akin or cognate manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a commensurate or proportionate manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In a regular, unvarying, consonant, symmetric or symmetrical manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In a square, fair or pertinent manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Adverbial inflection of the adjective equivalent.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Form (equivalent) | 1. Being essentially equal to something; "a wish that was equivalent to a command".[Wordnet]. 2. Equal in amount or value; "like amounts"; "equivalent amounts"; "the same amount"; "gave one six blows and the other a like number"; "an equal number"; "the same number".[Wordnet]. 3. Equal in wortir or value, force, power, effect, import, and the like; alike in significance and value; of the same import or meaning.[Websters]. 4. Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; -- applied to magnitudes; as, a square may be equivalent to a triangle.[Websters]. 5. Contemporaneous in origin; as, the equivalent strata of different countries.[Websters]. 6. Being equal, tantamount, similar, uniform or coequal.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being corresponding, conformable, consistent, accordant or congruent.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being comparable, analogous or analogical.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being commensurate, adequate or commensurable.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Adjective base of the adverb equivalently.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "EQUIVALENTLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: EQUIVALENTLY
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adverb] In an equal manner.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Adverb] in an equivalent manner; equally. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: equivalent
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Cash equivalent | A highly liquid debt instrument with maturities of less than three months. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Common stock equivalent | Preferred stock or convertible bonds or warrants that can be converted into common stock. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Conformally equivalent | In mathematics and theoretical physics, two geometries are conformally equivalent if there exists a conformal transformation (an angle-preserving transformation) that maps one geometry to the other one. (references) | ||
| Elementarily equivalent | In mathematics, specifically model theory, two models of a language are said to be elementarily equivalent if their theories are the same; that is, any sentence satisfied by one model is also satisfied by the other. (references) | ||
| Equivalent (chemistry) | The equivalent (Eq or eq) is a reasonably common measurement unit used in chemistry and the biological sciences. It is a measure of a substance's ability to combine with other substances. It is frequently used in the context of normality. (references) | ||
| Equivalent air depth | In technical diving, the equivalent air depth (EAD) is a way of expressing the narcotic effect of specific breathing gas mixtures that contain nitrogen, for example nitrox and trimix. (references) | ||
| Equivalent airspeed | Equivalent airspeed (EAS) is the airspeed which represents the same dynamic pressure at altitude that would be generated by flying at the corresponding true airspeed (TAS) at sea level. It is useful for predicting aircraft handling, aerodynamic loads, stalling etc. (references) | ||
| Equivalent Annual Cost | Equivalent Annual Cost (EAC) is the cost per year of owning an asset over its entire lifespan. (references) | ||
| Equivalent average | Equivalent Average (EqA) is a baseball metric invented by Clay Davenport, and intended to express the production of hitters in a context independent of park and league effects. It represents a hitter's productivity using the same scale as batting average. Thus, a hitter with an EqA over .300 is a very good hitter, while a hitter with an EqA of .220 or below is poor. An EqA of .260 is considered league average. (references) | ||
| Equivalent carbon content | The equivalent carbon content of a steel alloy refers to method of measuring the maximum hardness and the weldability of the alloy based on the chemical composition of the alloy. Higher concentrations of carbon and other alloying elements such as magnesium, chromium, silicon, molybdenum, vanadium, copper, and nickel tend to increase the hardness and decrease the weldability of the material. Each of these materials tends to influence the hardness and weldability of the steel to different magnitudes, however, making a method of comparison necessary to judge the difference in hardness between two alloys made of different alloying elements. The equivalent carbon content is the most common such standard, but others exist, such as the equivalent nickel content and equivalent chromium content. (references) | ||
| Equivalent circuit | An equivalent circuit is the result of the reduction of a complex circuit into a simpler form. (references) | ||
| Equivalent dose | The equivalent dose (HT) is a measure of the radiation dose to tissue where an attempt has been made to allow for the different relative biological effect of different types of ionizing radiation. Equivalent dose is therefore a less fundamental quantity than radiation absorbed dose, but is more biologically significant. Equivalent dose has units of sieverts. (references) | ||
| Equivalent Exchange | Equivalent Exchange is a concept quoted and believed by alchemists from the anime Fullmetal Alchemist, notably the Elric Brothers. Equivalent Exchange is used in alchemy, and most closely resembles the law of conservation of matter of Antoine Lavoisier, one of the founders of modern chemistry. In Fullmetal Alchemist, conservation of energy seems to be an unknown concept thus other scientific laws such as Albert Einstein's E=mc² and the laws of thermodynamics do not directly apply. (references) | ||
| Equivalent National Tertiary Entrance Rank | Non-school-leaver university applicants (mature age students) receive an ENTER score on the basis of their results in the Special Tertiary Admissions Test. (references) | ||
| Equivalent potential temperature | Equivalent potential temperature, commonly referred to as Theta-e \left( \theta_e \right), is a measure of the instability of air at a given pressure, humidity, and temperature. Theta-e is the temperature of one parcel of air at 1000 mb after considering the energy from when the water vapor in the parcel is condensed. (references) | ||
| Equivalent series inductance | Equivalent series inductance (ESL) is an effective inductance that is used to describe the inductive part of the impedance of certain electrical components. (references) | ||
| Equivalent variation | Equivalent variation is a measure of how much more money a consumer would need before a price increase to be just as well off after the price increase. EV reflects the new utility level and old prices, which gives it an advantage over compensating variation in the analysis of policy changes. (references) | ||
| Equivalent weight | 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. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Equivalent weight | Equivalent weight is the atomic weight of an element or radical divided by the valence it assumes in a chemical compound. (references) | ||
| Equivalent word | Two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Full-time equivalent | Full-time equivalent (FTE) is a way to measure a worker's productivity and/or involvement in a project. An FTE of 1.0 means that the person is equivalent to a full-time worker. An FTE of 0.5 may signal that the worker is only half-time, or that his projected output (due to differences in qualification, for example) is only half of what one may expect. Typically, different scales are used to calibrate this number, depending on the type of institution (schools, industry, research) and scope of the report (personnel cost, productivity). (references) | ||
| Gram equivalent | (Electrolysis), that quantity of the metal which will replace one gram of hydrogen. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Mechanical equivalent of heat | In the history of science, the mechanical equivalent of heat was a concept that played an important part in the development and acceptance of the conservation of energy and the establishment of the science of thermodynamics in the 19th century. (references) | ||
| Röntgen equivalent man | The Röntgen equivalent man or rem (symbol rem) is a unit of radiation dose. It is the product of the absorbed dose in röntgens and the biological efficiency of the radiation. The corresponding SI derived unit is the sievert, which equals 100 rem. (references) | ||
| Spousal equivalent | A person (not necessarily a spouse) with whom you cohabit and share a long-term sexual relationship. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Spouse equivalent | A person (not necessarily a spouse) with whom you cohabit and share a long-term sexual relationship. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Thevenin equivalent | In electrical circuit theory, a Thévenin Equivalent is a prototype circuit used to represent a power supply or battery. The circuit consists of an ideal voltage source in series with an ideal resistor. (references) | ||
| Ton of oil equivalent | The ton of oil equivalent (TOE) is a unit for measuring energy. It corresponds to 10 Gcalth or 41.868 GJ (41,868,000,000 joules), or 11.63 MWh. It is the rounded-off amount of energy that would be produced by burning one metric ton of crude oil. Since crude oil of different provenance will have a different chemical make-up and therefore give off varying amounts of heat when burnt, the value is conventional to a certain extent. (references) | ||
| Wired Equivalent Privacy | Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is an obsolete scheme to secure wireless networks (WiFi). Because a wireless network broadcasts messages using radio, it is particularly susceptible to eavesdropping. WEP was intended to provide comparable confidentiality to a traditional wired network, hence the name. However, several serious weaknesses were identified by cryptanalysts, and WEP was superseded by Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) in 2003, and then by the full IEEE 802.11i standard (also known as WPA2) in 2004. Despite the inherent weaknesses, WEP provides a bare minimal level of security that can deter casual snooping. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: equivalent
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Airborne Snow Water Equivalent Measurement Theory | Hydrologic | A theory based on the fact that natural terrestrial gamma radiation is emitted from the potassium, uranium, and thorium radioisotopes in the upper eight inches of the soil. The radiation is sensed from low flying aircraft 500 feet above the ground. Water mass in the snow cover attenuates the terrestrial radiation signal. The difference between airborne radiation measurements made over bare ground and snow-covered ground can be used to calculate a mean areal snow water equivalent value with a root mean square error of less than a half inch. (references) | |
| Barrel equivalent | Mining | A laboratory unit used for evaluating or testing drilling fluids. One gram of material, when added to 350 milliliters of fluid, is equivalent to 1 pound of material when added to one 42-gal barrel of fluid. (references) | |
| Barrel of oil equivalent | Energy | A unit of energy equal to the amount of energy contained in a barrel of crude oil. Approximately 5.78 million Btu or 1,700 kWh. A barrel is a liquid measure equal to 42 gallons. (references) | |
| Barrels per day equivalent | Energy | A unit of measure that tells how much oil would have to be burned to produce the same amount of energy. For example, California's hydroelectric generation in 1983 was 58,000 barrels per day equivalent. (BPD-Equivalent). (references) | |
| British equivalent temperature | Mining | See:equivalent temperature. (references) | |
| Bursa equivalent lymphocyte | Medicine | B lymphocyte:cell which develops in the bursa of Fabricius in the avian species and in the bone marrow in mammalian species and which proliferates in germinal centers in response to antigenic stimuli and which eventually matures into antibody-secreting plasma cell. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Calcium carbonate (CACO3) equivalent | Administration | An expression of the concentration of specified constituents in water in terms of their equivalent value to calcium carbonate. For example, the hardness in water which is caused by calcium, magnesium- and other ions is usually described as calcium carbon- ate equivalent. (references) | |
| Calcium carbonate equivalent | Mining | The content of carbonate in a liming material or calcareous soil calculated as if all of the carbonate is in the form of CaCO | |
| Carbon dioxide equivalent | Energy | The amount of carbon dioxide by weight emitted into the atmosphere that would produce the same estimated radiative forcing as a given weight of another radiatively active gas. Carbon dioxide equivalents are computed by multiplying the weight of the gas being measured (for example, methane) by its estimated global warming potential (which is 21 for methane). "Carbon equivalent units" are defined as carbon dioxide equivalents multiplied by the carbon content of carbon dioxide (i.e., 12/44). (references) | |
| Carbon dioxide equivalent | Weather | A metric measure used to compare the emissions from various greenhouse gases based upon their global warming potential (GWP) . Carbon dioxide equivalents are commonly expressed as "million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (MMTCDE) ." The carbon dioxide equivalent for a gas is derived by multiplying the tons of the gas by the associated GWP.MMTCDE = (million metric tons of a gas) * (GWP of the gas) See greenhouse gas, global warming potential, carbon equivalent. (references) | |
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