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Webster 1913 Edition
Equate
E-quate′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Equated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Equating
.] 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
- æquate (archaic)
Verb
equate (third-person singular simple present equates, present participle equating, simple past and past participle equated)
- To consider equal, to state as being equivalent.
- (mathematics) To set as equal.
Noun
equate (plural equates)
- (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.
- 2005, Arnold S. Berger, Hardware and Computer Organization (page 220)