equating

equating is the present participle and gerund of equate.

Meaning of equate

equate (third-person singular simple present equates, present participle equating, simple past and past participle equated)

(transitive) To consider equal or equivalent (to or with).
- Coordinate term: correspond
(transitive) To set as equal.
- 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...1960 February, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 67

equating (plural equatings)

The act by which things are equated; the evaluation of things as equivalent.
- But, overall, Donne's poetry represents an epistemic break with the love clichés so overused by an earlier era; and the poet was often moved to use Platonic equatings of love, beauty, and goodness to breathe new life into old Petrarchisms.2015, Philip R. Hardie, The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature
Synonyms:

equation, equivalence

plural	equatings

What does equating mean?: Equating means the act by which things are equated; the evaluation of things as equivalent.
What is equating the present participle and gerund of?: Equating is the present participle and gerund of equate.
What part of speech is equating?: Equating is a noun.
What is the plural of equating?: The plural of equating is equatings.

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