Equivalent
[ɪ'kwɪv(ə)l(ə)nt] or [ɪ'kwɪvələnt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) 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.
(noun.) a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc; 'send two dollars or the equivalent in stamps'.
(adj.) being essentially equal to something; 'it was as good as gold'; 'a wish that was equivalent to a command'; 'his statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt' .
伊妮德編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Equal in wortir or value, force, power, effect, import, and the like; alike in significance and value; of the same import or meaning.
(a.) Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; -- applied to magnitudes; as, a square may be equivalent to a triangle.
(a.) Contemporaneous in origin; as, the equivalent strata of different countries.
(n.) Something equivalent; that which is equal in value, worth, weight, or force; as, to offer an equivalent for damage done.
(n.) That comparative quantity by weight of an element which possesses the same chemical value as other elements, as determined by actual experiment and reference to the same standard. Specifically: (a) The comparative proportions by which one element replaces another in any particular compound; thus, as zinc replaces hydrogen in hydrochloric acid, their equivalents are 32.5 and 1. (b) The combining proportion by weight of a substance, or the number expressing this proportion, in any particular compound; as, the equivalents of hydrogen and oxygen in water are respectively 1 and 8, and in hydric dioxide 1 and 16.
(n.) A combining unit, whether an atom, a radical, or a molecule; as, in acid salt two or more equivalents of acid unite with one or more equivalents of base.
(v. t.) To make the equivalent to; to equal; equivalence.
阿尔塔編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Equal, commensurate, tantamount, EQUIPOLLENT.[2]. Synonymous, interchangeable, of the same meaning or import.
卡拉校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Equiponderant, equipollent
ANT:Unequal, unequivalent
赫克托整理
解釋/意思:
adj. equal in value power meaning &c.—n. a thing equivalent.—n. Equiv′alence.—adv. Equiv′alently.
整理:罗威娜
例句/造句/用法:
- To hang out a sign saying Come right in; there is no one at home is not the equivalent of hospitality. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Taking the horse power as the equivalent of the work of five men, the work of steam is equivalent to that of a population of 500,000,000 working men. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- In other words a force of 1 at a distance of 24 inches (2 feet) is equivalent to a force of 4 at a distance of 6 inches. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- We may note one or two points of difference from the equivalent life of the nomadic Semites. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The first two weeks after her return represented to Mrs. Peniston the domestic equivalent of a religious retreat. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- But upon the greater part of goods, those duties are equivalent to a prohibition. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Such an arrangement is equivalent to wheel and axle (Fig. 112); the capstan used on shipboard for raising the anchor has the same principle. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Thinking is thus equivalent to an explicit rendering of the intelligent element in our experience. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- James made it articulate in his essay on The Moral Equivalent of War. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I believe confession, in your case, would be half equivalent to cure. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- If a soft iron nail (Fig. 212) or its equivalent is slipped within the coil, the lifting and attractive power of the coil is increased, and comparatively heavy weights can be lifted. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- She knew it was equivalent to accepting Gerald Crich as a lover. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The self-raising flour, so widely advertised by grocers, is flour in which these ingredients or their equivalent have been mixed by the manufacturer. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Even in using this word Hun as a general equivalent for the Hiung-nu, we step on to controversial ground. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I'll not stand you an inch in the stead of a seraglio, I said; so don't consider me an equivalent for one. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- These Jacobins were the equivalents of the American radicals, men with untrammelled advanced ideas. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The British Ministry of Reconstruction and its foreign equivalents were exposed as a soothing sham. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It is impossible that it should have any success in these tasks without educational equivalents as to what to do and what not to do. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The use of electrical current in twelve principal cities in the United States was distributed in 1898 as follows: Lamps, arcs, and motors in sixteen candle power equivalents. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The Semitic peoples, we may point out here, are to this day _counting peoples_ strong in their sense of equivalents and reparation. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Educational Equivalents. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The educational equivalents of this doctrine in the uses made of pleasurable rewards and painful penalties are only too obvious. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- This is an obvious truism, which however gains meaning when translated into educational equivalents. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- As a very natural consequence of such development, the company by 1902 had 420 miles of underground system supplying installation amounting to 1,928,090 fifty-watt equivalents. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- To serve the people means to provide it with services--with clean streets and water, with education, with opportunity, with beneficent channels for its desires, with moral equivalents for evil. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- A greater number of new equivalents, of some kind or other, must have been presented to them to be exchanged for the surplus produce of that industry. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
整理:莎丽