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compensator definition

com·pen·sa·tor (käm′pən sāt′ər)

noun

  1. a person or thing that compensates
  2. any of various devices or circuits used to correct or offset some disturbing action, as speed deviations in a moving system or excessive current in a circuit

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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