equilibrate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to balance equally; keep in equipoise or equilibrium.
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to be in equilibrium with; counterpoise.
verb (used without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of equilibrate
1625–35; < Late Latin aequilībrātus, past participle of aequilībrāre to be in equilibrium; see -ate 1
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Greenspan’s faith that self discipline would effectively equilibrate financial markets proved to be his blind spot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Without the sunlight — an external source of energy — the temperature of the rod will equilibrate to the temperature of its environment.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2023
“Whenever there is a new recommendation, there are the early adopters who are extremely eager to want to get that booster right now,” she said, adding that “supply and demand will equilibrate in short order.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2021
The middle ear is connected to the pharynx through the Eustachian tube, which helps equilibrate air pressure across the tympanic membrane.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Masonry labors to equilibrate in us the Human and the Divine, 860-l.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
I said,” No, she just has an elevated body temperature, because we’ve been sitting in a car that’s equilibrated with the outdoor weather.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2021
The way that footballs are pumped, equilibrated to the right temperature, and tested for pressure requires uniformity and perhaps transparency.
From Time ● Jan. 29, 2015
What I dream of," he wrote, "is an art that is equilibrated, pure and calm, free of disturbing subject matter ... a means of soothing the soul . . . like a comfortable armchair.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mediæval society was a static, equilibrated affair, which did not favor rapid human multiplication.
From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Lothrop Stoddard
There was a moment of free-fall, then the drive engine came on and the grav-field equilibrated.
From The Dueling Machine by Ben Bova
If the temperature is equilibrating and the tank is no longer venting substances in the air, one possibility is that the reaction could be done.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026
I fear that those institutions are being so fundamentally damaged that their traditionally equilibrating mechanisms might not work.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
“There are still a lot of equilibrating mechanisms built into our system — not just political, but economic,” Putnam said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2022
The reason that values, whether they be the values of new and novel things, or the values of old and familiar things, tend to come to an equilibrium is that gains come from equilibrating them.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
The agency by which this levelling or equilibrating process is carried out is competition, involving what Smith called the 'higgling of the market.'
From The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill by Sir Leslie Stephen
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