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e⋅quate

  [i-kweyt]
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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.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME < L aequātus (ptp. of aequāre to make equal), equiv. to aequ(us) equal + -ātus -ate 1

Related forms:
e⋅quat⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
e⋅quat⋅a⋅ble, adjective
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Word Origin & History

equate 
c.1400, from L. æquatus, pp. of æquare "make even or uniform, make equal," from æquus "level, even, equal." Earliest use in Eng. was of astrological calculation, then "to make equal;" meaning "to regard as equal" is early 19c. Equation is c.1386 in astrology; the mathematical sense is from 1570.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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