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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishequal, fromLatinaequālis.Doublet ofaequalis andegal.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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equal (not generallycomparable,comparativemoreequal,superlativemostequal)

  1. (not comparable) The same in one or more respects.
    Near-synonyms:equivalent;see alsoThesaurus:equal
    • 2025 August 30,Katrina Miller, “You Don't Need to Be Good at Math to Enjoy It. In her latest book, Eugenia Cheng, a mathematician, explores the choices we make to determine if two things — numbers, shapes, words and even people — areequal. 'A Conversation With' column”, inNew York Times‎[1]:
      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 areequal — 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 consideredequal and unequal at the same time," Dr. Cheng wrote. "And it's up to us what we do about it."
    1. The same in value (status, merit, etc): having or deserving the samerights or treatment.
      We hold that all men are createdequal and are thusequal under the law.
      • 1983,Law & Inequality:
        [Under] the combat exclusion [preventing women from serving in combat...] Women are notequal citizens; women are a certain kind of citizen, a separate class with distinctly lower status.
      • 2009, Kari Melby, Christina Carlsson Wetterberg, Anna-Birte Ravn,Gender Equality and Welfare Politics in Scandinavia: The Limits of Political Ambition?, Policy Press,→ISBN, page57:
        […] women and men should beequal regarding civil rights / the right to occupational work.
    2. The same in all respects that matter practically;interchangeable,fungible, or (even sometimes)identical for practical purposes.
      Equal conditions should produceequal results.
      All else beingequal, we can expect this factor to have no discernible effect by itself.
      • 1705,George Cheyne,The Philosophical Principles of Religion Natural and Revealed:
        They who are not disposed to receive them may let them alone or reject them; it isequal to me.
      • 1980 July,Frank Herbert, “Dune Genesis”, inOmni‎[2], volume 2, number10,→ISSN,→OCLC,page74, column 2; republished asUltimate Guide To Dune (Part 2) Book One (1:11:30)‎[3],2017:
        I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not createdequal. In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers.Equal justice andequal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not haveequal ability.
    3. (mathematics, not comparable) Exactly identical, having the samevalue.
      All right angles areequal.
  2. (obsolete)Fair,impartial.
    Synonyms:objective,unbiased;see alsoThesaurus:impartial
  3. (comparable)Adequate; sufficientlycapable orqualified.
    This test is pretty tough, but I think I'mequal to it.
    beequal to the task
  4. (obsolete) Notvariable;equable;uniform;even.
    Synonyms:even,fair,uniform,unvarying;see alsoThesaurus:changeless,Thesaurus:steady
    anequal movement
  5. (music) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; notmixed.

Usage notes

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  • In mathematics, this adjective can be used in phrases like “A and B are equal”, “A is equal to B”, and, less commonly, “A is equal with B”.
  • The most common comparative use is the ironic expressionmore equal.

Translations

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the same in all respects
mathematics: exactly identical
(obsolete in English) fair, impartial
adequate; sufficiently capable
(obsolete in English) not variable
music: intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female
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Verb

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equal (third-person singular simple presentequals,present participle(US)equalingor(UK)equalling,simple past and past participle(US)equaledor(UK)equalled)

  1. (mathematics, copulative) To be equal to, to have the same value as; tocorrespond to.
    Two plus twoequals four.
  2. (transitive) To makeequivalent to; to cause tomatch.
    Davidequaled the water levels of the bottles, so they now both contain exactly 1 liter.
    • 2004, Mary Levy, Jim Kelly,Marv Levy: Where Else Would You Rather Be?:
      There was an even more remarkable attendance figure that underscores the devotion exhibited by our fans, because it was in 1991 that they set a single season in-stadium attendance record that has never beenequaled.
  3. (transitive) Tomatch indegree or some otherquality, tomatch up to.
  4. (copulative, informal) To have asconsequence, toamount to, tomean.
    Losing this dealequals losing your job.
    Might does notequal right.
    • 2012, Mike Seely, “The War on Williamsburg”, inSeattle Weekly, Volume 37, Number 49, 5 December - 11 December 2012, page 36:
      Eclectic and sophisticated are hence coded as negative traits–so coolequaling not so cool–putting Swift in seemed lockstep with the anti-intellectual sentiment that's led to the astonishing 21st-Century Bubbafication of the Republican Party.

Synonyms

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Translations

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be equal to
informal: have as its consequence

Noun

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equal (countable anduncountable,pluralequals)

  1. A person or thing of equal status to others.
    We're allequals here.
    This beer has noequal.
    • 1712 January 4 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison;Richard Steeleet al.], “MONDAY, December 24, 1711”, inThe Spectator, number256; republished inAlexander Chalmers, editor,The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.:D[aniel] Appleton & Company,1853,→OCLC:
      Those who were once hisequals envy and defame him.
      The spelling has been modernized.
    • 1981,William Irwin Thompson,The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page192:
      The two who have noequals become friends withoutequal.
    • 2005, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler,On Grief and Grieving,→ISBN, page150:
      They had hoped their son, a stockbroker, would marry a financialequal, but Suzette, a teacher, did not come from money.
  2. (obsolete) State of being equal;equality.

Synonyms

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  • (person or thing of equal status to others):peer

Translations

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person or thing of equal status to others

Derived terms

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terms derived from all parts of speech

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References

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  • “equal”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
  1. ^Hall, Joseph Sargent (2 March 1942), “3. The Consonants”, inThe Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4),New York:King's Crown Press,→DOI,→ISBN,§ 2, page88.

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatinaequālis, of unknown origin.Doublet ofegal.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɛːˈkwal/,/ˈɛːkwal/

Adjective

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equal(Late Middle English)

  1. identical in amount, extent, or portion
  2. even orsmooth (of surface)

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