Equivalent
Equivalent adjective - Being essentially equal to something.
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Valid and equivalent are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Valid" instead an adjective "Equivalent".
Valid
Valid adjective - According to the rules of logic.
Equivalent and valid are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Equivalent" instead an adjective "Valid".
Nearby Words: validity, validation
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This was sometimes hard to generate, and in fact, the copyright office would accept as valid the use of the letter C in parenthesis "(C)" as being equivalent to "©".
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While the number of valid moves a player could make in chess is always in flux, they never are equivalent, so a computer trying to solve chess via a brute force search encounters a staggeringly large number of possible games.
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The Lucha Libre equivalent is known as a técnico (or more rarely technico) which is more about the method they take to win (técnicos are content to rely on valid wrestling techniques) but is the same in practice more often than not.
Source: Face
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