equate

verb

1. (transitive)To consider equal or equivalent (to or with).

   “Coordinate term: correspond”

2. (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 average speed of all trains on the line concerned.”

noun

1. A statement in assembly language that defines a symbol having a particular value.

   “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.”