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Equate   /ɪkwˈeɪt/   Listen
Equate

verb
(past & past part. equated; pres. part. equating)
1.
Consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous.  Synonyms: compare, liken.  "You cannot equate success in financial matters with greed"
2.
Be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics.  Synonym: correspond.
3.
Make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching.  Synonyms: equal, equalise, equalize, match.  "The company matched the discount policy of its competitors"






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"Equate" Quotes from Famous Books



... from the useful researches of M. Daniel Berthelot that we must subtract 0.18 deg. from the indications of the hydrogen thermometer towards the temperature -240 deg. C, and add 0.05 deg. to 1000 deg. to equate them with the thermodynamic scale. Of course, the difference would also become still more noticeable on getting nearer to the absolute zero; for as hydrogen gets more and more cooled, it gradually exhibits in a lesser degree the characteristics ...
— The New Physics and Its Evolution • Lucien Poincare

... often were, he would smile good-naturedly and continue both as a contributor and as a question raiser. Turning to Mr. Clarke, he said: "I think I know how you feel. The statements of our ordained spiritual leaders are important, but do you think we should equate their words with—" ...
— Herein is Love • Reuel L. Howe

... comparisons of value between the different periods, it must be borne in mind, that, in 1870, gold was at an average premium of 25.3 per cent. To equate the valuation with those of other years, there must be a reduction of one-fifth on the reported valuation of 1870, ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

... affirmatives (Y. and I.). And so far it is easy to follow his meaning: the Xs are identical with some or all the Ys. But, coming to the negatives, the equational interpretation is certainly less obvious. The proposition No X is Y (E.) cannot be said in any sense to equate X and Y; though, if we obvert it into All X is some not-Y, we have (in the same sense, of course, as in the above affirmative forms) X equated with part at ...
— Logic - Deductive and Inductive • Carveth Read

... divergence between different examples of the same custom or belief allows a very important point to be made in the study of survivals. We can estimate the value of the elements which equate in any number of examples, and the value of the elements which diverge; and by noting how these values differ in the various examples we shall discover the extent of the overlapping of example with example, which is of the utmost importance. A given custom consists, say, ...
— Folklore as an Historical Science • George Laurence Gomme



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