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59be cases of full equivalence without literal equivalence, e.g. capacidad natural deentender y querer and capacité aquilienne (Thiry 2006: 804-808).Table 3. Example of full equivalentsLexical units Meaning Graphical representation of the relationEN table (A)PT mesa (B)A=BPartial equivalenceIn lexicography, partial equivalence tends to be formulated as the situation in which alexical unit in one language has the same semantic features as the lexical unit in theother language but includes others features that the equivalent does not include or hasmore or less features than the equivalent. Similarly, in terminology, partial equivalenceoccurs when: ―Un terme T1 dans la langue L1 ne partage pas une relation identiqueavec un terme T2 dans la langue L2, quand le concept C dans la langue L1 necorrespond pas complètement au concept C dans la langue L2‖ (Rondeau 1981: 33).There may be different reasons why equivalents are partial:Inclusion – Terms do not have the same amount of semantic or conceptualtraits in that one includes the other. They will, however, match up in termsof their essentialia, i.e. essential or necessary characteristics (Šarčević1991). In Table 4, the essentialia shared by the two concepts are highlightedin bold. Term A denotes a wider concept than term B as the former containsaccidentalia (additional characteristics) not present in the latter.