• To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such anallowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard ofcomparison; 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 measureddistance one mile for each twenty feet of ascent.-- Equating for curves, adding half a mile for each 360 degrees ofcurvature.


    Equate meaning & definition 1 of Equate.


  • Consider (one thing) to be the same as or equivalent to another.

    Equate meaning & definition 2 of Equate.

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