'Equating for grades' definitions:

Definition of 'Equating for grades'

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  • Equate \E*quate"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Equated; p. pr. & vb. n. Equating.] [L. aequatus, p. p. of aequare to make level or equal, fr. aequus level, equal. See Equal.] To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to mean time or motion; as, to equate payments; to equate lines of railroad for grades or curves; equated distances. [1913 Webster]
  • Palgrave gives both scrolle and scrowe and equates both to F[rench] rolle. --Skeat (Etymol. Dict. ). [1913 Webster]
  • Equating for grades (Railroad Engin.), adding to the measured distance one mile for each twenty feet of ascent.
  • Equating for curves, adding half a mile for each 360 degrees of curvature. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Equating for grades'

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  • Grade \Grade\ (gr[=a]d), n. [F. grade, L. gradus step, pace, grade, from gradi to step, go. Cf. Congress, Degree, Gradus.]
  • 1. A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour. [1913 Webster]
  • They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure, teachers of every grade. --Buckle. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. In a railroad or highway: (a) The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264. (b) A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Stock Breeding) The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade. [1913 Webster]
  • At grade, on the same level; -- said of the crossing of a railroad with another railroad or a highway, when they are on the same level at the point of crossing.
  • Down grade, a descent, as on a graded railroad.
  • Up grade, an ascent, as on a graded railroad.
  • Equating for grades. See under Equate.
  • Grade crossing, a crossing at grade. [1913 Webster]