equalize
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
equalize (equalizes, present participle equalizing; past and past participle equalized)
- (transitive) To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree.
- to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes
- One poor moment can suffice / To equalize the lofty and the low.
- No system of instruction will completely equalize natural powers.
- (obsolete, transitive) To be equal to; to equal, to rival. [16th-19th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.9:
- But a third kingdom yet is to arise / Out of the Trojans scattered ofspring, / That in all glory and great enterprise, / Both first and second Troy shall dare to equalise.
- 1649, [John] Milton, [Eikonoklastes] […], London: Printed by Matthew Simmons, […], OCLC 1044608640 ↗:
- polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.9:
- (intransitive, sports) To make the scoreline equal by scoring points. [from 20th c.]
- (underwater diving) To clear the ears to balance the pressure in the middle ear with the outside pressure by letting air enter along the Eustachian tubes.
- (category theory) Said of a morphism: to pre-compose with each of a parallel pair of morphisms so as to yield the same composite morphism.
- French: égaliser
- German: ausgleichen
- Italian: uguagliare
- Portuguese: igualar
- Spanish: igualar
- French: égaliser
- German: ausgleichen
- Italian: uguagliare
- Portuguese: igualar
- Russian: выра́внивать
- Spanish: empatar, igualar
- German: den Druck im Ohr ausgleichen
- Italian: compensare
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