The phrase "are basically equal" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing two or more things that are similar or have the same value in a general sense.
Example: "In terms of performance, the two models are basically equal, making it difficult to choose between them."
Alternatives: "are essentially the same" or "are roughly equivalent".
"REPUBLICS entered the world to affirm that men are basically equal," declares José Mujica.
The average heating rate of batteries at 20 °C, 40 °C, and 60 °C are basically equal, but the average heating rate of a battery at 100 °C is higher than that at 80 °C during the discharging process.
"The great thing about croquet is that it's a social sport in which men and women are basically equal," Archie Peck, director for croquet at the National Croquet Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., told me in a courtside interview at the Meadow Club.
To start with, Germans are abandoning a notion that all universities are basically equal — an ideal that dates from the 1970's when university admissions were opened up and that has served to mask vast disparities in quality among the country's 102 universities.
At the rated rotor speed, the losses of the DFIG between two cases are basically equal.
As shown in Fig. 5, the coefficients dM,1(k) are basically equal to zero, and two frequency components f0 and f1 of x t) lie in subspaces (V_{1}^{M}) and (W_{0}^{M}), separately.
He shows that median earnings for men and women in what he terms "this odd, unrepresentative slice of the population" have been basically equal since at least 1990.
And since the forward premium is basically equal to the interest-rate differential, this in turn means inferring Japanese inflation expectations as equal to the US TIPS spread minus the difference between US and Japanese rates.
The experiment results showed that the mortar cover crack spaces of FS columns were basically equal to the wire mesh spacing, leading to the occurrence of much more cracks compared with that of BM columns.
After deciding my choices were basically equal, I got the price down by using hotwire.com, an "opaque" lodging site that slashes the price but doesn't reveal the hotel you've booked until you pay.
According to previous algorithm, we knew that fitting error of each segment divided from PAA_ERR algorithm was smaller than the threshold; hence the maxSegErr value was basically equal.
