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
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
If the process of readjustment goes smoothly and evenly, we have a steady strain of attention—an equilibrated motion in one direction.
From Sex and Society by William I. Thomas
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
Any derangement or disease of these canals interferes with equilibration; this is well shown in Ménière's disease, in which there is always marked disturbance of the equilibrating function.
From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by James Weir
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