Ask Difference

Peer vs. Equivalent — What's the Difference?

Peer vs. Equivalent — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Peer and Equivalent

ADVERTISEMENT

Compare with Definitions

Peer

To look intently, searchingly, or with difficulty.

Equivalent

Equal in value, amount, function, meaning, etc.
One unit is equivalent to one glass of wine

Peer

To be partially visible; show
The moon peered from behind dark clouds.

Equivalent

A person or thing that is equal to or corresponds with another in value, amount, function, meaning, etc.
The French equivalent of the Bank of England

Peer

A person who has equal standing with another or others, as in rank, class, or age
Children who are easily influenced by their peers.
ADVERTISEMENT

Equivalent

The mass of a particular substance that can combine with or displace one gram of hydrogen or eight grams of oxygen, used in expressing combining powers, especially of elements.

Peer

A nobleman.

Equivalent

Equal, as in value, force, or meaning.

Peer

A man who holds a peerage by descent or appointment.

Equivalent

Having similar or identical effects.

Peer

A computer participating in a peer-to-peer network.

Equivalent

Being essentially equal, all things considered
A wish that was equivalent to a command.

Peer

(Archaic) A companion; a fellow
"To stray away into these forests drear, / Alone, without a peer" (John Keats).

Equivalent

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

Peer

(intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.

Equivalent

Having virtually identical or corresponding parts.

Peer

To come in sight; to appear.

Equivalent

Of or relating to corresponding elements under an equivalence relation.

Peer

To make equal in rank.

Equivalent

(Chemistry) Having the same ability to combine.

Peer

(Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.

Equivalent

(Logic) Having equivalence
Equivalent propositions.

Peer

A look; a glance.

Equivalent

Something that is essentially equal to another
"The hand is not the biological equivalent of a hammer or a screwdriver.
The hand is a multipurpose tool like a Swiss Army knife" (Jonathan Gottschall).

Peer

Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).

Equivalent

(Chemistry) Equivalent weight.

Peer

Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).

Equivalent

Similar or identical in value, meaning or effect; virtually equal.
To burn calories, a thirty-minute jog is equivalent to a couple of hamburgers.

Peer

A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
A peer of the realm

Equivalent

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

Peer

A comrade; a companion; an associate.

Equivalent

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

Peer

(informal) Someone who pees, someone who urinates.

Equivalent

(chemistry) Having the equal ability to combine.

Peer

To come in sight; to appear.
So honor peereth in the meanest habit.
See how his gorget peers above his gown!

Equivalent

(cartography) Of a map, equal-area.

Peer

To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day.
Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads.
As if through a dungeon grate he peered.

Equivalent

(geometry) Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; applied to magnitudes.
A square may be equivalent to a triangle.

Peer

To make equal in rank.

Equivalent

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

Peer

To be, or to assume to be, equal.

Equivalent

(chemistry) An equivalent weight.

Peer

One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.
In song he never had his peer.
Shall they consort only with their peers?

Equivalent

(transitive) To make equivalent to; to equal.

Peer

A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.
He all his peers in beauty did surpass.

Equivalent

Equal in worth or value, force, power, effect, import, and the like; alike in significance and value; of the same import or meaning.
For now to serve and to minister, servile and ministerial, are terms equivalent.

Peer

A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a peer of the realm.
A noble peer of mickle trust and power.

Equivalent

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

Peer

A person who is of equal standing with another in a group

Equivalent

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

Peer

A nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage

Equivalent

Something equivalent; that which is equal in value, worth, weight, or force; as, to offer an equivalent for damage done.
He owned that, if the Test Act were repealed, the Protestants were entitled to some equivalent. . . . During some weeks the word equivalent, then lately imported from France, was in the mouths of all the coffeehouse orators.

Peer

Look searchingly;
We peered into the back of the shop to see whether a salesman was around

Equivalent

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.

Equivalent

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.

Equivalent

To make the equivalent to; to equal; equivalence.

Equivalent

A person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc;
Send two dollars or the equivalent in stamps

Equivalent

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

Equivalent

Equal in amount or value;
Like amounts
Equivalent amounts
The same amount
Gave one six blows and the other a like number
An equal number
The same number

Equivalent

Being essentially equal to something;
It was as good as gold
A wish that was equivalent to a command
His statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt

Share Your Discovery

Share via Social Media
Embed This Content
Embed Code
Share Directly via Messenger
Link
Previous Comparison
Flashbulb vs. Flash
Next Comparison
Shallow vs. Narrow

Popular Comparisons

Trending Comparisons

New Comparisons

Trending Terms