Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To be in or bring about equilibrium.
- v. To maintain in or bring into equilibrium.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To balance equally; keep even with equal weight on each side; keep in equipoise.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To balance, or bring into equilibrium.
- v. intransitive To balance, to be in a state of equilibrium.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise.
WordNet 3.0
- v. bring into balance or equilibrium
- v. bring to a chemical stasis or equilibrium
Etymologies
- From the participle stem of late Latin *aequilībrāre. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Dave, as Ive pointed out, my principle issue with Lubos is his utterly unsuported claim that there is effectivley no “thermal inertia” in the earth’s system, becaus the time for the oceans to equilibrate is too short.”
“Lee, his utterly unsuported claim that there is effectivley no “thermal inertia” in the earth’s system, becaus the time for the oceans to equilibrate is too short.”
“There is too much inventory, particularly of distressed properties, relative to the pace of home sales, which means that prices must fall further to equilibrate the market.”
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“Maybe in another 65 million years, give or take, cranial capacity will come to equilibrate with neuronal/mental capability.”
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“When the US put enough pressure on them, and they finally let the yen equilibrate naturally, it fell to the vicinity of 100 yen/dollar.”
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“When the supply-demand balance changes in any one of those assets, all rates adjust to help equilibrate.”
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“The deflationary pressures the economy experienced during 2008 and 2009 were only temporary phenomena caused by producers and retailers slashing prices to quickly liquidate goods to equilibrate to a new, slower-growth outlook.”
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“Rather than equilibrate the market overnight, such confused policy leads to double digit increases in price as supply meets demand.”
“Personally i feel a need to equilibrate my love for goats with my hatred for sheep, so every hour or so i take a break and watch this a few times.”
“I think you'll quickly find that the agency model will spread throughout the ebook market and prices will equilibrate a bit.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘equilibrate’.
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2053 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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discoveries
These are lexical items new to me that I've discovered in actual use (i.e. not in dictionaries, lists, or this site).
Looking back over this list, I haven't the slightest idea what mos...haymow, hawsepipe, stridor, bariatric, autotelic, apotropaic, cyanotype, tourelle, autobody, zudecca, stifado, corbeille and 1073 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Some new Wordie words this week
Don't tell them they are not real--they might cry.
glover, breakfront, submaximal, criticality, lanoline, mouthy, botheration, metaphorically, metaphase, disavowal, arum, ostentatiously and 162 more...
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absquatulate, conceivable, daylight, fuselage, necromancy, obsequiously, orotund, pusillanimous, tooth, abhor, abide, abscissa and 111 more...
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Hecko, words! Thanks for staying with me. :-)
avenue, viscous, zeroth, usher, scarcely, viability, snout, sole, purify, riotous, menace, moist and 364 more...
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Proficiency Words List
heparin, lymphoid, renal, filtration, accrete, acetic, equilibrate, trypsin, fungi, jubilant, detention, coprophagous and 14 more...
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