compensate
verb (used with object)
to recompense for something.
compensator
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a word derived from
compensate.
Example Sentences
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So you and your buddy run through the steps: Does your buoyancy compensator work?
From Forbes ● Oct. 22, 2014
Scuba equipment has not changed much since the buoyancy compensator was developed a few years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I hope their compensator worked as well as ours," he said.
From Empire by Clifford D. Simak
To maintain the external form of the envelope a smaller balloon, or compensator, was placed inside the larger one.
From The Mastery of the Air by William J. Claxton
On new wire, when I fix my compensator, I usually have an adjusting screw on the lead to lever.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 by Various
