<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to regard, treat, or represent as equivalent: We cannot equate the possession of wealth with goodness.</li><li>to state the equality of or between; put in the form of an equation: to equate growing prosperity with the physical health of a nation.</li><li>to reduce to an average; make such correction or allowance in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison.</li></ul>