- 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.
- to make or regard as equivalent or similar, esp in order to compare or balance
- to indicate the equality of; form an equation from
- to be equal; correspond
