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verb (used with object), e·quat·ed, e·quat·ing.
1.
to regard, treat, or represent as equivalent: We cannot equate the possession of wealth with goodness.
2.
to state the equality of or between; put in the form of an equation: to equate growing prosperity with the physical health of a nation.
3.
to reduce to an average; make such correction or allowance in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison.
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equate
c.1400, from L. aequatus, pp. of aequare "make even or uniform, make equal," from aequus "level, even, equal." Earliest use in English was of astrological calculation, then "to make equal;" meaning "to regard as equal" is early 19c.
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