0 past simple and past participle of equate
1 to consider one thing to be the same as or equal to another thing:
He complained that there was a tendency to equate right-wing politics with self-interest.
These statements illustrate just how basic the idea of organization is in such theories, being equated with the very nature of life itself.
Individual equity under this system is generally equated with actuarial fairness, and most evaluations of social security are based on this idea.
Relative proportions of animal species are equated with the contribution that species made to the diet of the inhabitants.
But resolution of medical mistakes should not be equated with a complete restoration of patient-clinician relationship.
He argues, however, that women's relegation to the private sphere cannot be equated with powerlessness.
In this condition, we equated the luminance of the brightest leaves with the luminance of the fruit.
The norms of a certain kind of experimental practice were now equated with the essential structure of the social reality to be investigated.
Little did they realise that 'organic' would eventually be equated with chic, aspiration and upward mobility.
