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Equated

Equate \E*quate"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Equated; p. pr. & vb. n. Equating.] [L. aequatus, p. p. of aequare to make level or equal, fr. aequus level, equal. See Equal.] 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.
--Skeat (Etymol. Dict. ).

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.

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equated

vb. (en-past of: equate)

Usage examples of "equated".

And holding up Spinoza as someone who equated Nature and nature, twisting him for such use, is suspicious to say the least.

Arguing against this flatiand Eco-view (which equated mononature with "spirit"), we already heard Emerson, as but one example, explain that "beauty in nature is not ultimate.

The closest word I can think of is ssinssrigg, but that is a term better equated with physical lust or selfish greed.

She remembered the man's earthy smell and equated that smell now with the aroma of pure evil.

She was frustrated, Jarlaxle could see, and in this one frustration equated with danger.

To Wulfgar's pragmatic view of the world, being defeated by mere memories equated to great weakness.

Wincing at the noise, the priestess didn't know if the extreme volume equated to a scream of pain, but she hoped so.

Vajradhara and Vajrasattva are also equated with the zenith and nadir respectively.

The stupa also became one of the three supports or receptacles for the threefold division of the sacred into mind, word and body, for Buddhahood was equated with mind.

This group of three objects, which must be present during worship, was thus equated with the ancient Buddhist profession of faith with which the believer, proclaiming his recourse to the Three Refuges or Supports of the Buddha, the Doctrine and its representatives, the monks, performed the essential act that made him a Buddhist.

So his son equated his education with the softness of women, yet yearned to be like his father.

Now he had hiked out of the valley, the vivid pink grass which cloaked the southern half of the cylinder was grading down to a musky-grey, an effect he equated to a city smog wrapping itself round the landscape.

Messing with the sight on a level which equated to waving a hand at persistent flies.

Joshua didn’t mind that: as he told Louise, conviction in one’s God nearly always equated to a conviction in self.

Gilson had lived and died in a political clime that favored the already-favored, and equated price with value.