Examples of using "équivalent" in a sentence and their english translations:
carried in 50,000 atomic bombs worth of energy,
that's the diameter of the smallest neuron in the human brain.
"If P, then Q" is logically equivalent to "(Not P) and/or Q".
We cannot find an English equivalent for the Japanese 'giri'.
"If P, then Q" is logically equivalent to "If not Q, then not P".
In your thesis, you could at least replace a few German words with their English equivalents, so that it's not so obvious that it is plagiarised.