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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.