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
The compensator is, as may be seen, nothing more than a double Mariotte flask.
From Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 by Various
By collecting the over-flow of gas in the compensator, this disadvantage is obviated.
From Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
The sensation swiftly lifted as the compensator took up the load.
From Empire by Clifford D. Simak
