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Definition: COMPENSATOR |
COMPENSATORNoun1. An iron plate or magnet placed near the compass on iron vessels to neutralize the effect of the ship's attraction on the needle. 2. One who, or that which, compensates; -- a name applied to various mechanical devices. |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | In a plastic-faced or veneered panel product, an equivalent material found by experience to effect an essentially balanced construction when used on the back. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | In gas charged thermostats, a device which compensates for fluctuations caused by temperatures in certain parts of the power system being lower than that of the bulb. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Device, manually or computer-controlled, carried in aft swept wing(ASW)aircraft to eliminate false readings caused by permanent, induced and eddy-current interference signals. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | An instrument to determine the voltage difference between two points inthe ground by the compensation method. Syn:accessory plate. (references) |
Occupations | Tends cutting mechanism of tube-making machine that cuts multiwall tubes: Turns controls to synchronize speed of drawer rolls with speed of stock so cutting mechanism will cut tubes at printed cutoff line. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: COMPENSATOR |
| Specialty definitions using "COMPENSATOR": REGULATOR INSPECTOR ♦ YARDAGE-CONTROL OPERATOR, FORMING. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "COMPENSATOR" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (compensating, compensator, compensatory). |
Expressions using "COMPENSATOR": Magnetic compensator ♦ recoil compensator. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
compensator | 18 |
buoyancy compensator | 9 |
compensator static var | 6 |
compensator cutts | 6 |
compensator glock | 3 |
compensator horizontal motion | 3 |
beretta compensator | 3 |
compensator harley nut | 3 |
compensator pistol | 3 |
1911 compensator | 3 |
compensator kimber | 2 |
compensator rubber | 2 |
compensator idle | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "COMPENSATOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | компенсатор (canceller). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 补偿器. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kompenzátor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | pendulkompenseringsvalse (pivoted compensator), naar riggen loefter sig,maa loeftecylindrene aktiveres for at udstraekke borestrengskompensatoren og saaledes presse luft fra cylindrene ind i trykluftbeholderne (as the heaves upward, the support cylinders must stroke to extend the drill string compensator and thus to compress air from the cylinders into the air pressure vessels), balance for puffer (compensating link, compensator for buffers, equalizing link). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | evenwichtshefboom voor buffers (compensating link, compensator for buffers, equalizing link), bij de opwaartse dompbeweging van het boorschip moeten de steuncilinders een slag maken om de boorseriecompensator uit te schuiven en aldus lucht uit de cilinders in de drukvaten te comprimeren (as the heaves upward, the support cylinders must stroke to extend the drill string compensator and thus to compress air from the cylinders into the air pressure vessels). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | heiluvalla valssilla varustettu nopeudensäädin (pivoted compensator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | compensateur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ausgleicher (adjuster, equalizer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ικανοποιών (gratifier, satisfier, sufficer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kompenzátor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sollecitata dal rollio della nave,la batteria tende a staccarsi dal fondo;affinché il peso sull'utensile resti costante si inserisce nella batteria un giunto(di perforazione)che serve ad ammortizzare questi movimenti (a heave compensator is inserted into the string to absorb these movements, under the influence of vessel heave the drill string tends to lose contact with the bottom of the hole;to ensure that the weight on the bit remains constant), bilanciere del respingente (compensating link, compensator for buffers, equalizing link), bilanciere compensatore della repulsione coniugata (compensating link, compensator for buffers, equalizing link), al sollevarsi dell'impianto,la corsa dei cilindri deve mettere sotto tensione il compensatore,comprimendo l'aria contenuta nei cilindri verso i bomboloni dell'aria compressa (as the heaves upward, the support cylinders must stroke to extend the drill string compensator and thus to compress air from the cylinders into the air pressure vessels). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 보 장치. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cooilleeneyder (achiever, avenger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ompensatorcay transformador (transformer). (various references) compensator (compensating, compensatory). (various references) компенсатор (canceller). (various references) koji obeštećuje. (various references) compensador (trimmer). (various references) kompensator. (various references) denkleme transformatoru, düzenleyici (grader, organizer, organizing, promoter, regulating, regulative, regulator, regulatory, trimmer). (various references) компенсатор (equalizer), автотрансформатор. (various references) cơ cấu bù, cái bù. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "COMPENSATOR": compensators, compensatory. (additional references) | |
Words containing "COMPENSATOR": overcompensatory. (additional references) | |
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"COMPENSATOR" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Comestor, compensa. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-m-n-o-o-p-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: anterooms, coenamors, coparents, copatrons, corantoes, coronates, corposant, crampoons, monocarps, monocrats, moonscape, portances, protonema, stonecrop. | |
-3 letters: acrosome, ancestor, anteroom, capsomer, capstone, cartoons, coenamor, comatose, compares, comparts, comports, composer, compotes, coparent, copastor, copatron, corantos, coronate, coronets, corpsman, corpsmen, crampons, crampoon, enactors, manropes, mercapto, mesocarp, mesotron, metopons, monocarp, monocrat, monstera, monteros, onstream, opencast, operants, ostracon. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-m-n-o-o-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: compensators, compensatory. | |
+2 letters: anisometropic, contemplators. | |
+3 letters: actinomorphies, contemporaries, overcompensate, pneumothoraces, recompilations, recomputations. | |
+4 letters: contemporaneous, intercomparison, overcompensated, overcompensates, pronunciamentos. | |
+5 letters: anthropocentrism, computerizations, intercomparisons, mechanoreceptors, megacorporations, microsporangiate, overcompensating, overcompensation, overcompensatory, premodifications, pronunciamentoes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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