equate

English

Alternative forms

• æquate (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English equaten, from Latin aequātus, past participle of aequō.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈkweɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

Verb

equate (third-person singular simple present equates, present participle equating, simple past and past participle equated)

1. (transitive) To consider equal or equivalent (to or with).
2. (transitive, mathematics) To set as equal.
   • 1960 February, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 67:

     Mr. Hoyle, who does not believe many multiple-unit diesel services on secondary routes will resist for ever the road transport challenge, would forgo passenger traffic altogether on a little-used route in order to improve the quality of the freight working and reduce its costs by equating the average speed of all trains on the line concerned.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “consider equal”): differentiate

Related terms

• equation

Translations

Translations

• Czech: ztotožňovat impf, stavět na roveň impf
• Spanish: equiparar (es)

See also

• conflate

Noun

equate (plural equates)

1. (programming) A statement in assembly language that defines a symbol having a particular value.
   • 2005, Arnold S. Berger, Hardware and Computer Organization, page 220:

     The first section of the program includes the system equates.

   • 2009, Saifullah Khalid, Neetu Agrawal, Microprocessor System, page 256:

     The following equates define the stats byte […]

   • 2012, J. S. Anderson, Microprocessor Technology, page 221:

     You can learn much about user routines, labels, displacements, equates (EQU) and so on, by modifying this program and observing the results on the screen.