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Equating   /ɪkwˈeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Equate  v. t.  (past & past part. equated; pres. part. 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."
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.



noun
equating  n.  The act of regarding as equal.
Synonyms: equation.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Equating" Quotes from Famous Books



... part of my concentration was required to maintain mental contact without any help from you, and to blanket the interference set up by the analytical part of your ego through its fixed, deep-rooted conviction equating the individual with mental isolation. Faced with absolute proof to the contrary, your analytical mind still tries to insist that what it has always believed to be true must still be true, otherwise everything is suspect and, therefore, anti-survival. In other words, on a survival level your ...
— The Short Life • Francis Donovan



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