Compensating
['kɑmpən,set]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Compensate
Inputed by Enoch
Examples
- In which compensating adjustment of their noses, they were pretty much like Treasury, Bar, and Bishop, and all the rest of them. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Besides these there are the compensating resistances and condensers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Its price, therefore, besides compensating all occasional losses, must afford something like the profit of insurance. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- What is called gross profit, comprehends frequently not only this surplus, but what is retained for compensating such extraordinary losses. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Like the rent of land, it is a neat produce, which remains, after completely compensating the whole risk and trouble of employing the stock. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The compensating resistances and condensers necessary for a duplex arrangement are shown in the diagram. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is the work of Nature which remains, after deducting or compensating every thing which can be regarded as the work of man. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The thoroughgoing character of this helplessness suggests, however, some compensating power. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The reference figures are similar to those in the preceding diagram, and all conditions are also alike except that a central compensating, or balancing, conductor, PN, is here introduced. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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