equate
/ɪˈkweɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.20 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A statement in assembly language that defines a symbol having a particular value.
Example Sentences
- "Coordinate term: correspond"
- "Mr. Hoyle, who does not believe many multiple-unit diesel services on secondary routes will resist for ever the road transport challenge, would forgo passenger traffic altogether on a little-used route in order to improve the quality of the freight working and reduce its costs by equating the average speed of all trains on the line concerned."
- "The first section of the program includes the system equates."
- "The following equates define the stats byte […]"
- "You can learn much about user routines, labels, displacements, equates (EQU) and so on, by modifying this program and observing the results on the screen."
Etymology
From Middle English equaten, from Latin aequātus, perfect passive participle of aequō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: equaten, aequātus
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ɪˈkweɪt/