Thetotalconsumerelectronicsmarketisequivalent toapproximately$100 for everypersononEarth.
equivalent amount/level/priceUnder the newscheme,companieswouldagreetopaythepensioncontributionsoftheiremployees, and inreturnworkerswouldsacrificean equivalentamountfromtheirsalary.
equivalent
noun[C,usually singular]
uk/ɪˈkwɪvələnt/us
something that is the sameamount,price,size, etc. as somethingelseor has the samepurposeas somethingelse:
The FSA hasspokentoitsNew York equivalent, the SEC,regardingthetakeover.
Thepriceof abarrelofcrudeoilin the early 1980s went as high as $40 (the equivalent of$80 today).
They should not exceed in size theequivalentof one page of print.
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On p. 102, with regard to the regulation of carbon emissions, the chapter says that a tax approach and an emission permits approach areequivalent.
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A more appropriate interpretation is that the annuity swap represents a market certaintyequivalentto the option.
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Note, however, that our numerical bounds frequently get better if multiple edges are replaced by a singleequivalentedge.
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The class of quasirandom graphs is defined by certainequivalentgraph properties possessed by random graphs.
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This largely determined the maximum of ten hectares (arableequivalent) and ensured that only symbolic holdings would be given to farm workers lacking ownership claims.
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At shorter, regional scales (equivalentto 10-15 times the ice thickness), however, the relationship was less convincing.
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Thus, though there is a straightforward diphthongal realization for this vowel, there is also a minority realization which is realizationallyequivalentto a long monophthong.
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However, even though not significant, the magnitude of the overall difference wasequivalentto that recorded in the previous correlational studies.
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Equivalentrealizations under the same experimental conditions are almost identical and individual trajectories compare well with theory.
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This similarity yieldsequivalentperformance in tasks where performance is dependent on the new semantic representation.
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Thus, every well-typed program can be translated to anequivalentstream-processing program.
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For a planting density of 2250 trees ha71, this isequivalentto 3150 kg ha71.
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This has created an institutional vacuum where noequivalentrural institutions have emerged to take charge of the functions undertaken by the communidades.
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His spellings give clear evidence of the variation in his own speech, with raised, unraised and even lowered equivalents of the short front vowels.
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carbon dioxide equivalent
The campus saved $100,000 in utility costs and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 378 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent during the campaign.
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energy equivalent
One tonne of plutonium is theenergyequivalentof 2 million tonnes of coal.
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exact equivalent
To a sensitive ear, the proposed system may not supply the exact equivalent in sound and it certainly would not provide the exact visual equivalent.
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