equate

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e⋅quate

[i-kweyt]

–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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e·quate (ĭ-kwāt')

v. e·quat·ed, e·quat·ing, e·quates

v. tr.

To make equal or equivalent.
To reduce to a standard or an average; equalize.
To consider, treat, or depict as equal or equivalent: equates inexperience with youth.

v. intr.
To be or seem to be equal; correspond.

[Middle English equaten, from Latin aequāre, aequāt-, from aequus, even, equal.]

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