equivalently

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Etymology

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English equivalent

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English equivalently

From equivalent + -ly.

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Adverb

equivalently (comparative more equivalently, superlative most equivalently)

1. In an equivalent manner; equally.
   • 2015 November 7, “A New Extension of the Binomial Error Model for Responses to Items of Varying Difficulty in Educational Testing and Attitude Surveys”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     We also note that the special case in which the b parameter is set a priori to 1 is underidentified and requires an arbitrary constraint on one item parameter or, equivalently, on the a distribution parameter.

Derived terms

• inequivalently