equate

present singular third person equates · participle present equating · participle past equated · past equated · alternative æquate

1. transitiveTo consider or assert as equal or equivalent (to or with).
2. transitiveTo make equal or equivalent.
3. transitivemathematicsTo set as equal.

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   Mr. Hoyle, who does not believe many multiple-unit diesel services on secondary routes will resist for ever the road transport challenge, would forgo passenger traffic altogether on a little-used route in order to improve the quality of the freight working and reduce its costs by equating the average speed of all trains on the line concerned.

   1960 February, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 67

plural equates · alternative æquate

1. computingA statement in assembly language that defines a symbol having a particular value.

   The following equates define the stats byte […]

   2009, Saifullah Khalid, Neetu Agrawal, Microprocessor System, page 256

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   The first section of the program includes the system equates.

   2005, Arnold S. Berger, Hardware and Computer Organization, page 220

   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.

   2012, J. S. Anderson, Microprocessor Technology, page 221