The phrase "be approximately equivalent to" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to indicate that two things have a similar value or meaning, but are not exactly the same. You can use this phrase when comparing two quantities, ideas, or actions that are similar but not identical. Example: The currency exchange rate between the US dollar and the euro is currently approximately equivalent to 1:1. This means that one US dollar is roughly equal in value to one euro.
The grip is so strong it would be approximately equivalent to a human being dangling six full-grown elephants from the top of a building.
That income — if realized — would be approximately equivalent to nearly a 16percentt annual return on investment.
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.
If California lost 35% of federal Medicaid funding in 2036 (applying CBO's national projections), that would be approximately equivalent to all of the combined costs for all of the Medi-Cal benefits and eligibility groups listed in the second and third sets of examples above.
If California lost 35percentt of federal Medicaid funding in 2036 (applying CBO's national projections), that would be approximately equivalent to all of the combined costs for all of the Medi-Cal benefits and eligibility groups listed in the second and third sets of examples above.
In particular, a thin N-wall nanotube (defined by the radius-to-thickness ratio larger than 5) is shown to be approximately equivalent to a single layer elastic shell whose effective bending stiffness and thickness are N times the effective bending stiffness and thickness of singlewall carbon nanotubes.
The transfection efficiency was approximately equivalent to DNA:polylysine complexes.
Named for the 18th 19th-century 18th 19th-centuryCharles-Augustin de Coulomb, it is approximately equivalent to 6.24 × 1018 electrons.
