Meanings (ES + gloss)
equivalente
Similar or identical in value, meaning or effect; virtually equal.
For now to serve and to minister, servile and ministerial, are terms equivalent.
To burn calories, a thirty-minute jog is equivalent to a couple of hamburgers.
equivalente
Of two sets, having a one-to-one correspondence.
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.
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
equivalente
Anything that is virtually equal to something else, or has the same value, force, etc.
He owned that, if the Test Act were repealed, the Protestants were entitled to an equivalent, and went so far as to suggest several equivalents.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 equiv…
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