Usually means: Equal in value, function, meaning.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. equivalent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. equivalent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. equivalent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. equivalent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. equivalent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Equivalent, equivalent: Wordnik
  7. equivalent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. equivalent: Wiktionary
  9. equivalent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. equivalent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. equivalent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. equivalent: Dictionary.com
  13. equivalent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. equivalent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Equivalent (chemistry), Equivalent, The Equivalent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Equivalent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. equivalent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. equivalent: Rhymezone
  19. equivalent, equivalent, equivalent (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. equivalent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. equivalent: Free Dictionary
  22. equivalent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. equivalent: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. equivalent: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. equivalent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. equivalent: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. equivalent: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Equivalent (chemistry), equivalent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Equivalent (chemistry), equivalent: Medical dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Equivalent: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. equivalent: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  3. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  4. equivalent, equivalent, equivalent, equivalent, equivalent, equivalent: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. equivalent: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Similar or identical in value, meaning or effect; virtually equal.
adjective:  (mathematics) Of two sets, having a one-to-one correspondence.
adjective:  (mathematics) Relating to the corresponding elements of an equivalence relation.
adjective:  (chemistry) Having the equal ability to combine.
adjective:  (cartography) Of a map, equal-area.
adjective:  (geometry) Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; applied to magnitudes.
noun:  Anything that is virtually equal to something else, or has the same value, force, etc.
noun:  (chemistry) An equivalent weight.
verb:  (transitive) To make equivalent to; to equal.

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