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Webster 1913 Edition


Equate

E-quate′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Equated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Equating
.]
[L.
aequatus
, p. p. of
aequare
to make level or equal, fr.
aequus
level, equal. See
Equal
.]
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.
Palgrave gives both scrolle and scrowe and
equates
both to F[rench] rolle.
Skeat (Etymol. Dict. ).
Equating for grades
(Railroad Engin.)
,
adding to the measured distance one mile for each twenty feet of ascent.
Equating for curves
,
adding half a mile for each 360 degrees of curvature.

Definition 2024


equate

equate

English

Alternative forms

Verb

equate (third-person singular simple present equates, present participle equating, simple past and past participle equated)

  1. To consider equal, to state as being equivalent.
  2. (mathematics) To set as equal.

Noun

equate (plural equates)

  1. (programming) A statement in assembly language that defines a symbol having a particular value.
    • 2005, Arnold S. Berger, Hardware and Computer Organization (page 220)
      The first section of the program includes the system equates.
    • 2009, Saifullah Khalid, Neetu Agrawal, Microprocessor System (page 256)
      The following equates define the stats byte []
    • 2012, J. S. Anderson, Microprocessor Technology (page 221)
      You can learn much about user routines, labels, displacements, equates (EQU) and so on, by modifying this program and observing the results on the screen.