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Equivalent (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".

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.

The new employee was considered the equivalent of a senior manager due to her extensive experience in the field.
The company offered a cash bonus or its equivalent in additional vacation days.
The university degree from the foreign institution was deemed equivalent to a degree from a local university.
The new medication was found to be equivalent in effectiveness to the existing treatment.
The artist's sculpture was considered the equivalent of a masterpiece, worthy of display in a prominent museum.

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.

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.

The atomic equivalent of an element is the mass of that element that will unite with 8 grams of oxygen.
Calculating the equivalent weight of an element requires knowledge of its atomic mass and valency.
The chemical equivalent of hydrogen is 1 gram because it just needs 1 atom to unite with one atom of another element.
Historically, the equivalent weight was determined experimentally using chemical reactions involving oxygen as the standard substance.
The equivalent weight of chlorine is 35.5 because it combines with 8 grams of oxygen to form one molecule of a compound.