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equivalent

[ih-kwiv-uh-luhnt, ee-kwuh-vey-luhnt] / ɪˈkwɪv ə lənt, ˌi kwəˈveɪ lənt /




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Meanwhile, earlier this spring, the U.S. government declassified another batch of UFO files and the response was roughly equivalent to a collective shrug.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

The leak exposed the names, contact and delivery details and order histories of some customers of Coupang, South Korea's largest e-commerce platform often described as its equivalent of Amazon.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Currently, TensorWave has three operational data centers, in Pennsylvania, Arizona and Florida, with computing capacity at the equivalent of 10,000 megawatts of electrical power, which is a relatively small amount.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

The new map of neural connections, known as a connectome, extends a previously published fruit fly brain connectome by adding the fly's spinal cord equivalent, called the nerve cord.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

It was the Bronze Age equivalent of computer code.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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