Both Uses of
equivalent
in
Childhood's End
- Somewhere up in Karellen's ship must lie the equivalent of this great room-and van Ryberg wondered, with a tingling of the spine, what shapes moved to and fro collecting the messages that Earth was sending to the Overlords.†
Chpt 3 *
- The microphone, already alive, was waiting for him: something that was the equivalent of a TV camera must be watching, but he could not locate it.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(equivalent) being equal or essentially equal