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58Bearing in mind the gradation of equivalence and gathering up all the termsmentioned in the literature, we end up with the following scale of equivalence degreesreproduced in Figure 9.Figure 9. Equivalence degrees in terminology based on the review of the literatureFull equivalenceFull equivalence occurs when there is an overall correspondence between the lexicalunit in the source language and its counterpart in the target language in regard tosemantic content, category, and conditions of use. Typically, full equivalents denote thesame object (Table 3).In terminology, full equivalence occurs when two terms in different languagesdesignate the same concept. Thiry (2006: 804) notes that, most often, full equivalenceco-occurs with literal, word-to-word correspondence, e.g. responsabilidad civilextracontractual and responsabilité civile extracontractuelle. Nevertheless, there may