e·quate [ i kwáyt ](past and past participlee·quat·ed, present participlee·quat·ing, 3rd person present singulare·quates)
verb
Definition:
1. transitive verb consider as equivalent to something: to treat, show, or consider something as equivalent to something else equating money with happiness
2. transitive verb U.S. reduce something to the same level: to reduce something to the same level or value as something else
3. transitive verb mathematics form something into equation: to put something into the form of an equation involving an equality
4. intransitive verb appear to be equal: to be or appear to be the same
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formal
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Their two accounts of the incident seem to equate.
[15th century. < Latin aequat-, past participle of aequare "make equal" < aequus "equal, even"]
