2.Being the same for all members of a group: gave every player an equal chance to win.
3.Having the requisite qualities, such as strength or ability, for a task or situation: "Elizabeth found herself quite equal to the scene” ( Jane Austen).
4.Having the same privileges, status, or rights: equal before the law.
5.Having the same quantity, measure, or value as another.
According to one story, Archimedes was puzzled till one day, as he was stepping into a bath and observed the water running over, it occurred to him that the excess of bulk occasioned by the introduction of alloy could be measured by putting the crown and an equal weight of gold separately into a vessel filled with water, and observing the difference of overflow.0 | 0 |
These natural philosophers suggested that equal volumes of all gaseous substances must contain, at the same temperature and pressure, the same number of molecules.0 | 0 |
She'd never be able to trust someone with everything or find her equal the way Damian and Dusty had found theirs.0 | 0 |
Apparently, evil is equal opportunity.0 | 0 |
Tammy hurled herself across the room into his arms and started lavishing him with kisses and hugs that he returned with equal enthusiasm.0 | 0 |
He would perhaps have placed alder branches over the narrow holes in the ice, which were four or five rods apart and an equal distance from the shore, and having fastened the end of the line to a stick to prevent its being pulled through, have passed the slack line over a twig of the alder, a foot or more above the ice, and tied a dry oak leaf to it, which, being pulled down, would show when he had a bite.0 | 0 |
Now, madam, these triangles are equal; please note that the angle ABC...0 | 0 |
I pointed this out to everybody with provoking persistency, but no one seemed equal to the task of providing the doll with eyes.0 | 0 |
Lisa waited for his reply in tense silence, but his response filled her with equal anger and pain.0 | 0 |
"You've said quite enough for one evening," she answered with equal composure.0 | 0 |
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