EQUILIBRATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does equilibrate mean? 

• EQUILIBRATE (verb)
  The verb EQUILIBRATE has 2 senses:

1. bring to a chemical stasis or equilibrium

2. bring into balance or equilibrium

  Familiarity information: EQUILIBRATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EQUILIBRATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they equilibrate    ... he / she / it equilibrates   
Past simple: equilibrated   
Past participle: equilibrated   
-ing form: equilibrating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bring to a chemical stasis or equilibrium

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "equilibrate" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

equilibrium (a chemical reaction and its reverse proceed at equal rates)

equilibrium (equality of distribution)

equilibrium (a stable situation in which forces cancel one another)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bring into balance or equilibrium

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

balance; equilibrate; equilibrise; equilibrize

Context example:

balance the two weights

Hypernyms (to "equilibrate" is one way to...):

fit; match (make correspond or harmonize)

Verb group:

balance; poise (hold or carry in equilibrium)

balance (be in equilibrium)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "equilibrate"):

complement (make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to)

compensate; correct; counterbalance; even off; even out; even up; make up (adjust for)

cancel; offset; set off (make up for)

countervail; offset (compensate for or counterbalance)

trim (balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

equilibrium (a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head)

equilibrium (a chemical reaction and its reverse proceed at equal rates)

equilibrium (equality of distribution)

equilibrium (a stable situation in which forces cancel one another)

 Context examples 

What he saw under the ice were several distinctive features of a complex impact crater: a flat, bowl-shaped depression in the bedrock that was surrounded by an elevated rim and centrally located peaks, which form when the crater floor equilibrates post-impact.

(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)