Equivalant vs. Equivalent: What's the Difference?

Equivalant is an incorrect spelling of Equivalent.

In chemistry, Equivalent describes substances having the same ability to combine.

Equivalent refers to items or ideas of equal value or significance.

Equivalent can refer to items having a similar function or role.

It can also mean something interchangeable in some context.

Equal, as in value, force, or meaning.

Having similar or identical effects.

Being essentially equal, all things considered

Capable of being put into a one-to-one relationship. Used of two sets.

Having virtually identical or corresponding parts.

Of or relating to corresponding elements under an equivalence relation.

(Chemistry) Having the same ability to combine.

(Logic) Having equivalence

Something that is essentially equal to another

(Chemistry) Equivalent weight.

Similar or identical in value, meaning or effect; virtually equal.

(mathematics) Of two sets, having a one-to-one correspondence.

(mathematics) Relating to the corresponding elements of an equivalence relation.

(chemistry) Having the equal ability to combine.

(cartography) Of a map, equal-area.

(geometry) Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; applied to magnitudes.

Anything that is virtually equal to something else, or has the same value, force, etc.

(chemistry) An equivalent weight.

(transitive) To make equivalent to; to equal.

Equal in worth or value, force, power, effect, import, and the like; alike in significance and value; of the same import or meaning.

Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; - applied to magnitudes; as, a square may be equivalent to a triangle.

Contemporaneous in origin; as, the equivalent strata of different countries.

Something equivalent; that which is equal in value, worth, weight, or force; as, to offer an equivalent for damage done.

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.

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.

To make the equivalent to; to equal; equivalence.

A person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc;

The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen

Equal in amount or value;

Being essentially equal to something;

In mathematics, Equivalent means having the same worth or result.