equate

• æquate (obsolete)

From Middle English equaten, from Latin aequātus, perfect passive participle of aequō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈkweɪt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

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.

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

• equation

• conflate

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.