The present participle of 'equate'; the act of making things equal or treating them as equivalent.
From 'equate' plus '-ing,' the gerund form emphasizing the ongoing action of establishing equivalence between two things.
In statistics, 'equating test scores' means adjusting them so a SAT from 2010 is comparable to one from 2023—a hidden but crucial process that affects millions of students' futures.
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