is understood of something that is equal in value, force, or effect, to another.

Equivalence is of various kinds, in propositions, in terms, and in things.

EQUIVALENT Propositions. See EQUIPOLLENCE.

EQUIVALENT Terms are where several words that differ in sound have yet one and the same signification; as every body was there, and nobody was absent, nihil non, and omne.

EQUIVALENT Things, are either moral, physical, or flatrical. Moral, as when we say that the commanding or advising a murder is a guilt equivalent to that of the murderer. Physical, as when a man who has the strength of two men is said to be equivalent to two men. Flatrical, whereby a less weight becomes of equal force with a greater, by having its distance from the centre increased.