(a.) Equal in wortir or value, force, power, effect, import, and the like; alike in significance and value; of the same import or meaning.
(a.) Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; -- applied to magnitudes; as, a square may be equivalent to a triangle.
(a.) Contemporaneous in origin; as, the equivalent strata of different countries.
(n.) Something equivalent; that which is equal in value, worth, weight, or force; as, to offer an equivalent for damage done.
(n.) That comparative quantity by weight of an element which possesses the same chemical value as other elements, as determined by actual experiment and reference to the same standard. Specifically: (a) The comparative proportions by which one element replaces another in any particular compound; thus, as zinc replaces hydrogen in hydrochloric acid, their equivalents are 32.5 and 1. (b) The combining proportion by weight of a substance, or the number expressing this proportion, in any particular compound; as, the equivalents of hydrogen and oxygen in water are respectively 1 and 8, and in hydric dioxide 1 and 16.
(n.) A combining unit, whether an atom, a radical, or a molecule; as, in acid salt two or more equivalents of acid unite with one or more equivalents of base.
(v. t.) To make the equivalent to; to equal; equivalence.
Example Sentences:
(1) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
(2) Although lorazepam and haloperidol produced an equivalent mean decrease in aggression, significantly more subjects who received lorazepam had a greater decrease in aggression ratings than haloperidol recipients; this effect was independent of sedation.
(3) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
(4) The reducing equivalents could be donated by formate or NADH through some segment of the membrane respiratory chain.
(5) We found that, although controlled release delivery of ddC inhibited de novo FeLV-FAIDS replication and delayed onset of viremia when therapy was discontinued (after 3 weeks), an equivalent incidence and level of viremia were established rapidly in both ddC-treated and control cats.
(6) At concentrations several hundredfold higher than the equivalents present in the minimum concentration of rat skin soluble collagen required for platelet aggregation, neither Hyl-Gal (at 29 muM) nor Hyl-Gal-Glc (at 18 muM) caused platelet aggregation or inhibited platelet aggregation by native collagen.
(7) The concentrations of anesthetics having this effect on the putative Ca2+ channel were between 0.0026 and 0.078 MAC equivalents for each agent, and these concentrations are much lower than the anesthetic concentrations affecting Ca2+ uptake.
(8) The industry will pay a levy of £180m a year, or the equivalent of £10.50 a year on all household insurance policies.
(9) Legislation governing adoption has attempted to make the adoptive family the equivalent of a consanguinal one, with varying degrees of success.
(10) In spite of the formation of the epoxide intermediate, no binding of [14C]d-limonene equivalents to mouse kidney proteins was observed.
(11) However, the degree of inhibition of parasite replication after exposure to rMu-GM-CSF was not as great as after treatment with rMu-IFN-gamma, and much more rMu-GM-CSF than rMu-IFN-gamma was required to achieve an equivalent antimicrobial effect.
(12) Ferredoxin reductase (Fd-reductase) supplies reducing equivalents obtained from NADPH to mitochondrial cytochrome P450 enzymes via the small iron-sulfur protein ferredoxin.
(13) Eight healthy, nonsmoking subjects received 1.7, 3.4, and 5.2 mg of atropine sulfate by inhalation and 1.67 mg of atropine free base (equivalent to 2 mg of atropine sulfate) by intramuscular (i.m.)
(14) Early in the infection, the 5'-most site, L1, is used preferentially, whereas late in infection, all sites are used equivalently.
(15) Both formats were found equivalent on all measures.
(16) The norms are reported as "Scaled Score Equivalents of Raw Scores" for each age group and as "IQ Equivalents of Sums of Scaled Scores."
(17) An average size chromomere of the polytene X chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster contains enough DNA in each haploid equivalent strand to code for 30 genes, each 1,000 nucleotides long.
(18) Tumours from two of three patients with a current HBV infection contained 1--2 genomes per cell of unintegrated viral DNA, while tumours from the third HBs antigen-positive patient contained less than one genome equivalent per ten cells.
(19) However, the diuretic effect of 1 mg bumetanide is equivalent to 40 to 60 mg furosemide or ethacrynic acid.
(20) And the equivalent pulmonary vascular resistance Rpc was calculated as the predicted pulmonary vascular resistance in the increased pulmonary blood flow of two times Qp.
Nero
Definition:
(n.) A Roman emperor notorius for debauchery and barbarous cruelty; hence, any profligate and cruel ruler or merciless tyrant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Officers Garrett Miller and Edward Nero are charged with assault.
(2) This includes a pledge to significantly increase paper cup recycling rates by 2020, which has been signed by 30 companies, including Caffè Nero, Costa, Starbucks, McDonalds, Marks & Spencer, Waitrose, Greggs and Pret a Manger.
(3) This study compares the recorded kilovoltage peak (kVp) on the control panel versus actual kVp measured by the Photon Physics instrument and Non-invasive Evaluator of Radiation Output (NERO) System.
(4) • Among the four models Del Nero dated before facing multiple corruption claims : Sexy Magazine’s Carol Muniz , 28 – who told local press last year their love was real.
(5) But on this day of days not even a tiresome intervention from John Bercow could draw a frown from Nero's brow.
(6) Rogers, who once accused Ofcom of a "Nero approach" to regulation – fiddling while Rome burned – this week praised its "positive response" to calls for change and said the future holds "huge opportunities" for the commercial radio sector.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photo provided by the Baltimore police department shows, top row from left, Caesar R Goodson Jr, Garrett E Miller and Edward M Nero, and bottom row from left, William G Porter, Brian W Rice and Alicia D White.
(8) Nadia Amato, an Italian economics graduate, arrived in London 10 days ago and is trying her luck at Pret and rival Cafe Nero.
(9) The cost of these essentially trivial events would shame the Emperor Nero.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Qatar blames prejudice for 2022 World Cup bribe allegations Ronaldo and Romario are among the former Brazilian players who have called on Del Nero to quit.
(11) In the natural focus of leptospirosis at the lake Nero (Yaroslav region, USSR) 630 samples of soil were investigated for the presence of leptospires.
(12) Nero is also bringing separate litigation against Mosby contending that Gray was arrested lawfully.
(13) "This is exactly comparable to the emperor Nero playing his harp and everyone having to cheer," said Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, who was sacked after exposing the Karimov regime's torture of political opponents.
(14) I remember watching Rose [Gray, the restaurant's co-founder] cooking cavolo nero.
(15) The measured kVp on photon physics or NERO system was always greater than the recorded kVp on the control panel.
(16) It’s evident the kind of relationship he (Del Nero) had with Marin,” said Ronaldo, who was an ambassador for the 2014 World Cup organising committe.
(17) Polypeptide profiles generated by the mutants in Nero cells were qualitatively similar to that of wild-type virus.
(18) Rice, Nero and Miller saw their potential prison terms reduced by five years each.
(19) Ali Mohsin, the wayward general whose troops are fighting the loyalists, lashed out at Saleh in a statement on Saturday calling him a "sick, vengeful soul" and comparing him to the Roman emperor Nero, wasting time as his city burns.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photographs of six Baltimore police officers charged in relation to Freddie Gray’s death (L-R: top row: Alicia D White, Brian Rice, William Porter; bottom row: Edward Nero, Garrett Miller, Caesar Goodson).