- present tense form of equate (3rd person singular).
equates
Example Sentences
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The number of incidents recorded at the forecourts in the sample equates to 2,872 daily incidents on average at forecourts across the UK in the months after war began, up from around 2,400.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Based on the price First Hawaiian shares closed at last week, that equates to about $63.12 per TriCo share.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
This equates to about 150 months, or 12-and-a-half years, to break even — or about 82-and-a-half years of age.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
Micron had an 85% gross margin in the third quarter, and expects it to rise to 86% in the current quarter—that equates to a 600% markup on Micron’s cost of goods.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
Michael Frayn, in an afterword to his play Copenhagen, notes that several words in German–Unsicherheit, Unschärfe, Unbestimmtheit–have been used by various translators, but that none quite equates to the English uncertainty.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
