EQUIVALENT

Definitions

1. 1. Equal in wortir or value, force, power, effect, import, and the like; alike in significance and value; of the same import or meaning. For now to serve and to minister, servile and ministerial, are terms equivalent. South.
2. 2. Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; -- applied to magnitudes; as, a square may be equivalent to a triangle.
3. 3. Contemporaneous in origin; as, the equivalent strata of different countries.