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Adjective
/ˈēkwəl/,
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Being the same in quantity, size, degree, or value,
  1. Being the same in quantity, size, degree, or value
    • - add equal amounts of water and flour
    • - 1 liter is roughly equal to 1 quart
  2. (of people) Having the same status, rights, or opportunities

  3. Uniform in application or effect; without discrimination on any grounds
    • - a dedicated campaigner for equal rights
  4. Evenly or fairly balanced
    • - it was hardly an equal contest
  5. Having the ability or resources to meet (a challenge)
    • - the players proved equal to the task
Verb
  1. Be the same as in number or amount
    • - four plus six divided by two equals five
    • - the total debits should equal the total credits
  2. Match or rival in performance or extent
    • - he equaled the world record of 9.93 seconds
  3. Be equivalent to
    • - his work is concerned with why private property equals exploitation
Noun
  1. A person or thing considered to be the same as another in status or quality
    • - we all treat each other as equals
    • - it was a day without equal in market history
  1. be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!"
  2. having the same quantity, value, or measure as another; "on equal terms"; "all men are equal before the law"
  3. peer: a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
  4. adequate: having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task; "she had adequate training"; "her training was adequate"; "she was adequate to the job"; "he was equal to the task"
  5. 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"
  6. 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"
  7. Loosely, equality is the state of being quantitatively the same. More formally, equality (or the identity relation) is the binary relation on a set X defined by .
  8. Equal is a brand of artificial sweetener containing aspartame, dextrose and maltodextrin. It is marketed as a tabletop sweetener by Merisant, a global corporation which also owns the well-known NutraSweet brand and which has headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, Switzerland, Mexico, and Australia. ...
  9. (The Equals) The Equals were a pop/reggae/rock group that formed in North London, England in 1965. They are mainly remembered for its million-selling chart-topper, "Baby Come Back". Eddy Grant, then sporting dyed blonde hair, founded the group. ...
  10. A person or thing of equal status to others; To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to; To have as its consequence; The same in all respects; Exactly identical, having the same value; Unvarying, fair; Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified
  11. (equalness) equality
  12. (Equals) cards that are adjacent in rank or become adjacent after the cards that separate them have been played.
  13. (EQUALS) Revised Net Cash Due
  14. (equals()) The default implementation of equals() in the Object class is to compare the references of two objects. In ProActive, it is redefined to compare the hashcode of two proxies. As a consequence, it is only possible to compare two future object, and not a future object with a normal object.
  15. of a stipe, having equal diameter from the apex to the base.
  16. [Not all 'equals' are equal.] The word equal and the symbol '=' have many different uses. The dictionary warns that equal things are 'alike or in agreement in a specified sense with respect to specified properties.' This we must be careful about the specified sense and specified properties.
  17. Only in the sense of physically equal, like equal height/size, etc. It does not mean politically equal, since there is no such concept in Ingsoc.
  18. Of plant parts being compared, where the parts are similar in length or terminate at the same point.
  19. Compares the content of data structures such as lists, vectors and strings to determine if they are the same.
  20. The increase in probability of success is the same for every point expenditure.
  21. Equal is a Community Initiative providing for the development of new practices to fight against discrimination and inequalities of every kind in access to the labour market. It is financed by the European Social Fund. (See also Community Initiatives, Structural Funds.)
  22. a blue and white rabbit who was built by Arend Studios and debuted at Further Confusion 2008.^[11]
  23. [JR/JF/18]          re all are free and equal: “possess to a sufficient degree the requisite powers of moral personality and the other capacities that enable them to be normal and fully cooperating members of society over a complete life.”
  24. Palin – 1, Biden – 0, Victory: Palin – 2, Biden – 0
  25. any hour system where the length of an hour is independent of the date, and the same during daytime and night-time.