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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 …

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  1. v. t. 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.
  2. v. consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous
  3. v. be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics
  4. v. make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching
  5. v:100 v. be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics