Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To be in or bring about equilibrium.
- intransitive verb To maintain in or bring into equilibrium.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To balance equally; keep even with equal weight on each side; keep in equipoise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
balance , or bring intoequilibrium . - verb intransitive To
balance , to be in a state of equilibrium.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb bring into balance or equilibrium
- verb bring to a chemical stasis or equilibrium
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Examples
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Dave, as Ive pointed out, my principle issue with Lubos is his utterly unsuported claim that there is effectivley no “thermal inertia” in the earth’s system, becaus the time for the oceans to equilibrate is too short.
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Lee, his utterly unsuported claim that there is effectivley no “thermal inertia” in the earth’s system, becaus the time for the oceans to equilibrate is too short.
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Maybe in another 65 million years, give or take, cranial capacity will come to equilibrate with neuronal/mental capability.
Matthew Yglesias » Arctic Seabed Methane Stores Destabilizing 2010
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When the US put enough pressure on them, and they finally let the yen equilibrate naturally, it fell to the vicinity of 100 yen/dollar.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Our Government is Anti-Consumer 2009
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When the supply-demand balance changes in any one of those assets, all rates adjust to help equilibrate.
Liquidity Trap or Statism Trap?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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There is too much inventory, particularly of distressed properties, relative to the pace of home sales, which means that prices must fall further to equilibrate the market.
Home Prices Show Sector Still Ailing S. Mitra Kalita 2011
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The deflationary pressures the economy experienced during 2008 and 2009 were only temporary phenomena caused by producers and retailers slashing prices to quickly liquidate goods to equilibrate to a new, slower-growth outlook.
Sen. Kyl Gets Taxes Right, But What About The Dollar? Paul Hoffmeister 2010
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Rather than equilibrate the market overnight, such confused policy leads to double digit increases in price as supply meets demand.
Thor Halvorssen: A Rotting Chicken in Every Pot: Venezuela's Disastrous Food Policy 2010
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Personally i feel a need to equilibrate my love for goats with my hatred for sheep, so every hour or so i take a break and watch this a few times.
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I think you'll quickly find that the agency model will spread throughout the ebook market and prices will equilibrate a bit.
Kudos To Macmillan (and/or Amazon) Jeff C 2010
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