Lexic.us

Definition of Equate

1. Verb. Consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous. "You cannot equate success in financial matters with greed"

2. Verb. Be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics.

3. Verb. Make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching. "The company matched the discount policy of its competitors"

Definition of Equate

1. v. t. To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to mean time or motion; as, to equate payments; to equate lines of railroad for grades or curves; equated distances.

Definition of Equate

1. Verb. To consider equal, to state as being equivalent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Equate

1. to make equal [v EQUATED, EQUATING, EQUATES] - See also: equal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Equate

equalled equalling equally equalness equals equals sign equals signs equangular equanimities equanimity

equanimous equant equants equatability equatable equate (current term) equated equates equating equation

equation division equational equationally equationlike equations equations of motion equative equatives equator equator bulbi oculi

Literary usage of Equate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The World as Imagination (series I) by Edward Douglas Fawcett (1916)
"Vou cannot equate "Being" and " non-Being." this " first definition " of the Absolute Idea there is a dialectical passage to the " second definition," ..."

2. Earthwork Haul and Overhaul: Including Economic Distribution by John Charles Lounsbury Fish (1913)
"equate each station-volume of fill to volume in place. — Each station-volume of fill is multiplied by the equating- factor 0.8 (Sec. 91). ..."

3. Solutions of Weekly Problem Papers by John James Milne (1885)
"Tripos, Monday morning. No. 1. 6. Substitute and clear o£ fractions. .-. ax + Ъ + N/^Ï ay = (ex + <*)£ - cyr¡ + V - equate real and unreal parts. ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"einh«y = l; If we equate the coefficient« of n on both sides of equation (13), we get , E*P»n- 23 2.4 5 _, 1 . 3 . S sin'« _ powera of its sine. ..."

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