What is "equates"

Usage examples of "equates".

The Dead Sea Scrolls insinuate the Nephilim may have bred with human women before the time of the Great Flood, a period that equates with the melting of the last ice age.

The Air Force equates them to an alien version of our Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

If the reptile brain equates with cold and the mammal brain with warmth, then the neocortex equates with light.

Let no man posture as an intellectual if he proposes to elevate a thug into the position of final authority over the intellect—or if he equates the power of physical compulsion with the power of persuasion—or if he equates the power of muscles with the power of ideas.

We automatically assume that our greater experi­ence equates with wisdom.

But furthermore the mind also measures symbolically, by comparison, as when it employs numerals and geometric figures and equates other things with them.

The simplest translation equates to our own: something so powerful we do not comprehend it.

I can’t see anything that equates to a nozzle on any of them, and the magnetic field doesn’t correspond to a power cell.

Quite a lot of the reason why this quip is considered so apposite is that it equates government with the conservation of momentum and the like.