equilibrate

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
There's a big chance here for us to be instantaneously translated to the Positive Absolute--oh, well What I emphasize here is that our damned data are observations by astronomers of the highest standing, excommunicated by astronomers of similar standing--but backed up by the dominant spirit of their era--to which all minds had to equilibrate or be negligible, unheard, submerged.

View all »
Definitions (6)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  1. intransitive verb To be in or bring about equilibrium.
  2. transitive verb To maintain in or bring into equilibrium.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (1)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (2)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (40)

  • The team climbed with oxygen tanks, then removed their masks 20 minutes prior to testing to equilibrate their lungs with the low-oxygen atmosphere. —  innovations-report
  • You may stay, but someone else moves, the demand continues to slide until prices equilibrate across cities, suburbs, towns, and regions. —  Home | The New York Observer
  • These constraints make regional natural gas price differentials harder to equilibrate than crude oil price differentials, and spot markets for natural gas tend to be more localised. —  Le Monde diplomatique - English edition
  • If climate change is making dryness and heatwaves more common, wouldn't we expect that given time to equilibrate, that the mix of vegetation would become less flamable. —  RealClimate
  • To our knowledge this study may trigger important new lines of thought and research, help equilibrate social and purely biological perspectives regarding ASD and bring new hopes for environmentally based therapies. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
More examples »
 

Tags

equilibrate hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 50 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. from Late Latin æquilibratus (adjective, equivalent to æquilibris: see equilibrium), past participle of *æquilibrare (later Italian equilibrare = Spanish Portuguese equilibrar = French équilibrer), balance equally, from Latin æquus, equal, + librare, balance, poise: see librate.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ikwɪˈlaɪbreɪt/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

widget · pneumonic · opacity · universe · shambling

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

britney · bunda · settii · aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile · an sionnach i gcraiceann na caorach