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Äquivalent — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • equivalent adj Equal in value, meaning, or effect, though not necessarily identical.

Senses

Äquivalent is used for these senses in English:

  • equivalent Similar or identical in value, meaning or effect; virtually equal.
  • equivalent (mathematics, category theory) Of two categories, (informally) such that one is essentially a relabeling of the other; (formally) related by a pair of functors such the composition of the one with the other is naturally isomorphic to the identity functor.
  • equivalent Anything that is virtually equal to something else, or has the same value, force, etc.

equivalent — full definition

  1. adj Equal in value, meaning, or effect, though not necessarily identical.
  2. noun Something that has the same value, function, or effect as something else.

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