equate

Etymology

From Middle English equaten, from Latin aequātus, past participle of aequō.

verb

1. (transitive) To consider equal or equivalent (to or with).
2. (transitive, mathematics) 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. 1960 February, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 67

noun

1. (programming) A statement in assembly language that defines a symbol having a particular value.
   The first section of the program includes the system equates. 2005, Arnold S. Berger, Hardware and Computer Organization, page 220
   The following equates define the stats byte […] 2009, Saifullah Khalid, Neetu Agrawal, Microprocessor System, page 256
   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. 2012, J. S. Anderson, Microprocessor Technology, page 221