Phrase Hound found 13 phrases and 6 compound words that contain equivalents. The most common are listed below. Open equivalents in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 13
- Cash equivalents
- certainty equivalentsplural of certainty equivalent: The guaranteed amount of money that an investor regards as equally desirable as a risky asset.
- doctrine of equivalentsA legal rule in most patent systems that allows a court to hold a party liable for patent infringement when the infringing device or process does not fall within the literal scope of a patent claim, but nevertheless is equivalent to the …
- full-time equivalentsplural of full-time equivalent: The result of a calculation to estimate the effective size of a workforce that may include part-time workers.
- doctrine of foreign equivalentsA rule applied in United States trademark under which foreign words are translated into English to determine whether they are registrable as trademarks, or are either descriptive or confusingly similar with existing marks.
- gram equivalentsplural of gram equivalent: The amount of a substance, in grams, that is numerically equivalent to its equivalent weight.
- moisture equivalentsplural of moisture equivalent: A measure of field capacity for fine-textured soil materials, defined as the percentage of water which a soil can retain in opposition to a centrifugal force 1,000 times that of gravity.
- TNT equivalentsplural of TNT equivalent: The amount of energy released by an explosion expressed in terms of the amount of TNT (trinitrotoluene) needed to generate a similar explosion. Used especially to describe nuclear bombs.
- water equivalentsplural of water equivalent: The vertical depth of liquid water that would result if all the solid precipitation (such as snow or ice) in a given area were entirely melted.
- electrochemical equivalentsplural of electrochemical equivalent: The mass of a given chemical element transported by a specific quantity of electricity.
- snow water equivalentsplural of snow water equivalent: The vertical depth of liquid water that would result if all the solid precipitation (such as snow or ice) in a given area were entirely melted.
- non-union Mexican equivalentsplural of non-union Mexican equivalent: A poor-quality imitator or substitute.
- gramme equivalentsplural of gramme equivalent: The amount of a substance, in grams, that is numerically equivalent to its equivalent weight.
Compound words 6
- bioequivalentsplural of bioequivalent: Describing the equivalence of multiple formulations of a drug in terms of bioavailability.
- cyberequivalentsplural of cyberequivalent: An equivalent of something, in terms of computers.
- microequivalentsplural of microequivalent: One millionth of an equivalent.
- milliequivalentsplural of milliequivalent: One thousandth of an equivalent
- nanoequivalentsplural of nanoequivalent: One thousand-millionth of a gram equivalent.
- macroequivalentsplural of macroequivalent: A function, procedure, or feature that serves the exact same purpose as another, but is implemented as a macro rather than a standard function or method.