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.
Phrases
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