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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024e•quate /ɪˈkweɪt/USA pronunciation v., e•quat•ed, e•quat•ing. - to consider or treat as equivalent: [~ + object + with + object]trying to equate experience with wisdom.[~ + object + and + object]You can't equate profitability and investment.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024e•quate (i kwāt′),USA pronunciation v.t., e•quat•ed, e•quat•ing. - to regard, treat, or represent as equivalent:We cannot equate the possession of wealth with goodness.
- to state the equality of or between;
put in the form of an equation:to equate growing prosperity with the physical health of a nation. - to reduce to an average;
make such correction or allowance in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison.
- Latin aequātus (past participle of aequāre to make equal), equivalent. to aequ(us) equal + -ātus -ate1
- late Middle English 1375–1425
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