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Equating   /ɪkwˈeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Equating

noun
1.
The act of regarding as equal.  Synonym: equation.



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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"Equating" Quotes from Famous Books



... glorious in his dress greens, a Sam Bowie belt equating his belly and supporting the side-arm holstered by one big hip, slapped Winfree on the back as he entered the hall. "At ease!" the Major shouted, then glanced contritely toward the two BSG colonels who'd been talking the loudest. "Gentlemen, ladies: I want to present the founder ...
— The Great Potlatch Riots • Allen Kim Lang

... any extended public argument with Rymer, he obviously knew both the Short View and Dacier's Aristotle. In the Parallel of Poetry and Painting (1695), he followed Rymer's lead in equating Dacier, the critic of tragedy ("in his late excellent Translation of Aristotle and his notes upon him"[11]) with Le Bossu, the framer of "exact rules for the Epic Poem...." But he disagreed with Dacier's opinions on the chorus and explained away Racine's use of it on the sensible ...
— The Preface to Aristotle's Art of Poetry • Andre Dacier

... part of my concentration was required to maintain mental contact without any help from you, and to blanket the interference set up by the analytical part of your ego through its fixed, deep-rooted conviction equating the individual with mental isolation. Faced with absolute proof to the contrary, your analytical mind still tries to insist that what it has always believed to be true must still be true, otherwise everything is suspect and, therefore, anti-survival. In other words, on a survival level your ...
— The Short Life • Francis Donovan

... the powers and attributes of the Absolute Self. Realise that you are not the emotional and passional manifestations—surging up in your personality. These are subject to the law of Flux and Rhythm and must be brought under the control of Reason and Will—the balancing, equating principle of mind. Realise that you are not the mind nor the intellect, but that you exercise this function in order to analyse the external manifestations of nature and study same. Realise that you are pure Consciousness, Bliss and Existence in your essential nature—on with ...
— The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga • A. P. Mukerji

... avoided any extended public argument with Rymer, he obviously knew both the Short View and Dacier's Aristotle. In the Parallel of Poetry and Painting (1695), he followed Rymer's lead in equating Dacier, the critic of tragedy ("in his late excellent Translation of Aristotle and his notes upon him"[11]) with Le Bossu, the framer of "exact rules for the Epic Poem...." But he disagreed with Dacier's opinions on the chorus and explained away Racine's use of it on the sensible grounds that ...
— The Preface to Aristotle's Art of Poetry • Andre Dacier



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