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The phrase "are approximately equivalent to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the similarity or comparability of two concepts, values, or items that are not exactly the same but are close enough in meaning or measurement.
Example: "In terms of energy consumption, electric cars are approximately equivalent to traditional gasoline vehicles."
Alternatives: "are roughly equal to" or "are nearly the same as".
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6bn bags are approximately equivalent to the weight of 300 blue whales, 300,000 sea turtles or 3m pelicans.
By definition, V air + V pa + V V equals 1. ρ pa and ρ v are approximately equivalent to the averaged density of the mediastinal blood pool ρ med (g/cm3).
The doses of the COX and LOX inhibitors used in this study are approximately equivalent to (or even higher than) doses that are known to inhibit behavioral responses mediated by COX [25], [26] and LOX [27], [28], respectively.
These guidelines are detailed by Shaw and colleagues [ 26] and are approximately equivalent to the ACCP guidelines [ 35].
100,000 accelerometer counts are approximately equivalent to 30 minutes of brisk walking in a person of average size.
Postal areas are approximately equivalent to a suburb or neighbourhood in urban areas and a region in rural areas.
Similar(39)
"This is approximately equivalent to the size of world food exports".
This effect is approximately equivalent to the impact of increasing yearly spending per pupil in the younger sibling's school by £670.
According to drafts of the settlement under discussion, two of the carriers, Verizon Wireless and Alaska Native, a company backed by AT&T Wireless, would provide bank letters of credit to the government in January; the letters of credit would be approximately equivalent to the amounts they agreed to pay at auction for more licenses earlier this year.
The transfection efficiency was approximately equivalent to DNA:polylysine complexes.
In adulthood, every month of the animal is approximately equivalent to 2.5 human years.
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