Dictionary Definition
equal adj
1 well matched; having the same quantity, value,
or measure as another; "on equal terms"; "all men are equal before
the law" [ant: unequal]
2 equal in amount or value; "like amounts";
"equivalent amounts"; "the same amount"; "gave one six blows and
the other a like number"; "an equal number"; "the same number"
[syn: like, equivalent, same] [ant: unlike] n : a person who is of
equal standing with another in a group [syn: peer, match, compeer]
Verb
1 be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar
equals 1,000 rubles these days!" [syn: be] [ant: differ]
2 be equal to in quality or ability; "Nothing can
rival cotton for durability"; "Your performance doesn't even touch
that of your colleagues"; "Her persistence and ambition only
matches that of her parents" [syn: touch, rival, match]
3 make equal, uniform, corresponding, or
matching; "let's equalize the duties among all employees in this
office"; "The company matched the discount policy of its
competitors" [syn: match,
equalize, equalise, equate] [also: equalling, equalled]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
aequalisPronunciation
- /ˈiːkwəl/, /"i:kw@l/
Adjective
- The same in all respects.
- Equal conditions should produce equal results.
- In the context of "mathematics|notcomparable": Exactly
identical, having the same value.
- All right angles are equal.
- Unvarying, fair.
- The treatment of students in this school is very equal.
- Adequate;
sufficiently capable or
qualified.
- This test is pretty tough, but I think I'm equal to it.
- 1881, Jane Austen, Emma,
p. 311
- her comprehension was certainly more equal to the covert meaning, the superior intelligence, of those five letters so arranged.
Synonyms
- sense the same in all respects identical
- sense exactly identical equivalent, identical
- sense unvarying even, fair, uniform, unvarying
Translations
the same in all respects
mathematics: exactly identical
unvarying, fair
- Dutch: gelijk, gelijke
- Esperanto: sama
- Finnish: reilu, tasavertainen, tasa-arvoinen
- German: gleich
- Russian: равный, одинаковый
- Spanish: capaz
- Swedish: jämlik
Verb
- To be equal to, to have the same value as.
- Two plus two equals four.
- To have as its consequence.
- Losing this deal equals losing your job.
Translations
be equal to
- Czech: rovnat se
- Dutch: gelijk zijn aan
- Finnish: olla yhtä suuri (kuin)
- French: égaler à
- German: gleichen
- Italian: eguagliare
- Spanish: igualar
- Swedish: vara lika med
informal: have as its consequence
Noun
- A person or thing of equal status to others.
- We're all equals here.
- This beer has no equal.
- We're all equals here.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
person or thing of equal status to others
- Dutch: gelijke m|f
- Finnish: vertainen
- German: Gleichgestellter , Gleichgestellte
- Swedish: jämlike , like
Extensive Definition
Equal commonly refers to a state of equality.
Equal may also refer to:
- Equals sign, or the symbol "="
- An equality operator, a relational operator expressed as "==" in C-style
- Equal (sweetener), a brand of artificial sweetener
- EQUAL Community Initiative, an initiative within the European Social Fund of the European Union.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accord,
accordant, agent, agree, aligned, alike, alter ego, alternate, alternative, amount to,
analogous, analogy, approach, at par, au pair,
automatic, backup, balance, balanced, be parallel, beat, break even, brother, capable of, challenge
comparison, change,
changeable, changeling, coequal, coextend, coextending, coextensive, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, collateral, colleague, come to, come up
to, commensurable,
commensurate,
commutable, commutative, comparable, compare, comparison, compeer, competitor, concurrent, congruent, congruous, consistent, consonant, constant, continuous, convertible, coordinate, copy, correspond, correspond to,
correspondent,
corresponding,
coterminous,
counterfeit,
counterpart,
deputy, dispassionate, distributional, distributive, ditto, double, draw, drawn, dummy, duplicate, emulate, equable, equal to, equalize, equalized, equalizing, equidistant, equilateral, equipollent, equispaced, equitable, equivalent, ersatz, eurythmic, even, even off, even stephen,
exchange, exchanged, fair, fake, fellow, fifty-fifty, fill-in,
finished, flat, ghost, ghostwriter, give-and-take,
go alongside, go beside, half, half-and-half, halvers, harmonious, homogeneous, identic, identical, imitation, immutable, impartial, indistinguishable,
interchangeable,
interchanged,
invariable, just, keep pace with, knot, knotted, level, like, lined up, locum tenens,
makeshift, match, match up with, matching, mate, measure up, measure up to,
measured, mechanical, meet, metaphor, methodic, metonymy, monolithic, mutual, next best thing, nip and
tuck, nonconvergent, nondivergent, objective, of a piece, on a
footing, on a level, on a par, on even ground, opposite number,
ordered, orderly, par, parallel, parallelepipedal,
parallelinervate,
paralleling,
parallelodrome,
parallelogrammatic,
parallelogrammic,
parallelotropic,
partake of, particular, peer, per capita, per head,
permutable, persistent, personnel, phony, pinch hitter, pro rata,
proportional,
proportionate,
proportioned,
prorated, proxy, quits, reach, reciprocal, reciprocating, reciprocative, regular, relief, replacement, representative, reserves, respective, retaliatory, returnable, ringer, rival, robotlike, run abreast, run
parallel, run to, second string, secondary, selfsame, several, sign, similar, smooth, spares, square, square with, stable, stack up with, stalemated, stand-in,
standard, steadfast, steady, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, superseder, supplanter, surrogate, swapped, switched, symbol, symmetric, symmetrical, synecdoche, synonymous, systematic, tally, tally with, tantamount, third string,
tie, tied, token, top, touch, traded, transposed, twin, unbiased, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, uncolored, understudy, undeviating, undifferentiated,
undiversified,
uniform, unprejudiced, unruffled, unvaried, unvarying, up to, utility
player, vicar,
vice-president, vice-regent, vie, vie with, well-balanced,
well-set, well-set-up, without
distinction