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The same in one or more respects.

The same in value (status, merit, etc): having or deserving the same rights or treatment.

The same in all respects that matter practically; interchangeable, fungible, or (even sometimes) identical for practical purposes.

Exactly identical, having the same value.

(obsolete) Fair, impartial. +

(comparable) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.

(obsolete) Not variable; equable; uniform; even. +

(music) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.

(mathematics) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.

To make equivalent to; to cause to match.

To match in degree or some other quality, to match up to.

(informal) To have as consequence, to amount to, to mean.

A person or thing of equal status to others.

(obsolete) State of being equal; equality.