cancel vs equivalent

cancel

verb
  • To offset or equalize something. 

  • To cross out something with lines etc. 

  • To kill. 

  • To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation. 

  • To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare cancel culture. 

  • To invalidate or annul something. 

  • To stop production of a programme. 

  • To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused. 

noun
  • A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English). 

  • The page thus suppressed. 

  • A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message. 

  • The page that replaces it. 

  • The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages. 

equivalent

verb
  • To make equivalent to; to equal. 

adj
  • Having the equal ability to combine. 

  • Similar or identical in value, meaning or effect; virtually equal. 

  • Of a map, equal-area. 

  • Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; applied to magnitudes. 

  • Of two sets, having a one-to-one correspondence. 

  • Relating to the corresponding elements of an equivalence relation. 

noun
  • An equivalent weight. 

  • Anything that is virtually equal to something else, or has the same value, force, etc. 

How often have the words cancel and equivalent occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )