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
These processes help equilibrate the air to the body conditions, reducing any damage that cold, dry air can cause.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
“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
A Rule to equilibrate Solids in the water.
From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galileo Galilei
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
Necessarily incident to these great, immense, equilibrated and beneficent movements, caused by the antagonism of equatorial heat and polar cold, are the typhoons, tornadoes, and cyclones that result from conflicts between the rushing currents.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
Through disuse of the sword and the spade their hands were directly equilibrated towards smallness.
From Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson
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
Then we look at supply and demand, and at the equilibrating dynamics, which causes the topic of the Phillipscurve.
From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Thomas Colignatus
By consequence, the major equilibrating forces exert themselves on the wage and the related employment.
From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Thomas Colignatus
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