Medical Definition of equivalent. 1  1: corresponding or virtually identical especially in effect or function drugs that are therapeutically equivalent. 2  2: having the same chemical combining capacity equivalent quantities of two elements.
Geography. All the nine islands of the Azores Archipelago are volcanic origin and are located in the North Atlantic, scattered along a 600 km stretch of ocean from Santa Maria to Corvo, approximately between 37Â° and 40Â° north latitude and 25Â° and 31Â° west longitude.he islands of the archipelago are divided in three geographical groups: the Eastern Group, comprising Santa Maria and Sao SÃ£o, miguel The Central, group Including, Terceira, Graciosa Sao, SÃ£o jorge Pico, and faial And The, western group Composed by Corvo. and flores
In addition to this, the government of the Azores employs a large percentage of the population directly or indirectly in many aspects of the service and tertiary sectors. There are nine major Azorean islands and an islet cluster, in three main groups.t is defined by a line of submarine volcanoes and island mounts that extend northwest to southeast for about 550 kilometres (342 miles), from the area west of Graciosa until the islets of the Formigas, that includes the islands of Graciosa, Terceira and Sao SÃ£o. miguel