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Word: compensator (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A building control device used to deliver the compensation relationship or curve between the air temperature outside a building and the temperature of water or air provided to spaces or zones within the building for purposes of heating or cooling.
  • Any device used to compensate for something, notably to achieve a better balance
  • literally A party or thing which compensates, pays or otherwise provides a compensation
  • nautical One of several small magnets placed in the binnacle to neutralize the effect of the ship's metal on the compass

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