equal

1. (not comparable) The same in one or more respects.Examples: "Near-synonyms: equivalent; see also Thesaurus:equal"; "Dr. [Eugenia] Cheng's latest book, Unequal: The Math of When Things Do and Don’t Add Up, is all about equations and will be released in the United States on Tuesday. But it is more than a regurgitation of the many formulas you may recall learning in high school. In the book, Dr. Cheng argues that an equation — in its barest sense, a declaration that two things are equal — can be a profound statement on the choices we make about what is or is not the same. For example, 2 × 3 may equal 3 × 2. But two packs of three cookies each is distinct from three packs of two cookies each. A cube drawn face-on versus from one edge looks different, though we understand the two shapes to be the same. "Almost everything can be considered equal and unequal at the same time," Dr. Cheng wrote. "And it's up to us what we do about it.""not-comparableusually

2. (not comparable) The same in one or more respects.Examples: "We hold that all men are created equal and are thus equal under the law."; "[Under] the combat exclusion [preventing women from serving in combat...] Women are not equal citizens; women are a certain kind of citizen, a separate class with distinctly lower status."; "[…] women and men should be equal regarding civil rights / the right to occupational work."not-comparableusually

3. (not comparable) The same in one or more respects.Examples: "Equal conditions should produce equal results."; "All else being equal, we can expect this factor to have no discernible effect by itself."; "They who are not disposed to receive them may let them alone or reject them; it is equal to me."not-comparableusually

4. (not comparable) The same in one or more respects.Examples: "All right angles are equal."; "The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy."not-comparableusually

5. (obsolete) Fair, impartial.Examples: "it could not but much redound to the lustre of your milde and equall Government, when as private persons are hereby animated to thinke ye better pleas'd with publick advice, then other statists have been delighted heretofore with publicke flattery."; "Are not my ways equal?"; "Thee, O Jove, no equall judge I deem."Synonyms: objective, unbiased, candid, cold, clinical, detached, egal, equalnot-comparableobsoleteusually

6. (comparable) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.Examples: "This test is pretty tough, but I think I'm equal to it."; "Here was a man some twenty thousand miles from home, by the way of Cape Horn, that is—which was the only way he could get there—thrown among people as strange to him as though he were in the planet Jupiter; and yet he seemed entirely at his ease; preserving the utmost serenity; content with his own companionship; always equal to himself."; "her comprehension was certainly more equal to the covert meaning, the superior intelligence, of those five letters so arranged."comparablenot-comparableusually