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equalization

Word definitions for equalization in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of making equal or uniform [syn: equalisation , leveling ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1781, from equalize + -ation .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Equalization is a mathematical analysis of static load-sharing (also called load-distributing) 2-point anchor systems.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of equalizing, or state of being equalized. 2 (context underwater diving English) Maneuvers to balance the pressure in the middle ear with the outside pressure by letting air enter along the Eustachian tubes.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Equalization \E`qual*i*za"tion\, n. The act of equalizing, or state of being equalized. Their equalization with the rest of their fellow subjects. --Burke.

Usage examples of equalization.

GENTLEMEN:--Your letter of the 7th instant, accompanied by a similar one from the governor-elect, the Republican State officers, and the Republican members of the State Board of Equalization of Ohio, both requesting of me, for publication in permanent form, copies of the political debates between Senator Douglas and myself last year, has been received.

Similarly, a prohibition of unfair discrimination by any one engaged in the manufacture or distribution of a commodity in general use for the purpose of intentionally destroying competition of any regular dealer in such commodity by making sales thereof at a lower rate in one section of the State than in another, after equalization for distance, effects no invalid deprivation of property or interference with freedom of contract.

States provision is made for the correction of errors committed by them, through boards of revision or equalization, sitting at designated periods provided by law to hear complaints respecting the justice of the assessments.

An adjustment is required providing for the employment of both metals--maintaining between them such fair equalization as would not violently disturb the value of real property or of annual products, and most important of all would secure a steadiness to the wages of labor and a sound currency in which to recompense it.

Jefferson had proceeded far in his scheme of equalization it became widely known, through a letter which he had written in defense of his course in removing the Collector of Customs at New Haven, that he was intending to remove only a sufficient number to give his own supporters a fair proportion of places under the Government.

SECTION XIX EXTENSION OF THE COMPASS AND EQUALIZATION OF REGISTERS The whole secret of both consists in the proper raising and lowering of the soft palate, and the pillars of the fauces connected with it.

As acute suppression of the menses is due to derangement of the circulation of the blood, caused by taking cold, by violent excitement of the propensities or excessively strong emotional experience, the prominent indication is to secure its speedy equalization.

Immediately above his head there was the filtered and refiltered vent that allowed equalization of air pressure within and without the car.

If he had accepted the Equalization of Opportunity Bill, if he had accepted Directive 10-289, if he had accepted the law that those who could not equal his ability had the right to dispose of it, that those who had not earned were to profit, but he who had was to lose, that those who could not think were to command, but he who could was to obey them—then were they illogical in believing that they existed in an irrational universe?

Had Melody been able to capture a modified unit, Galaxy Milky Way would have had equalization of technology at a single stroke.

He even knew what caused them, in an abstract sort of way: the slowing of the Star's rotation, and the consequent explosive equalizations of spin energy.

The garden and buildings used to be part of the Oakham School campus, but private education hadn't lasted six months after the PSP came to power, swept away in the card carriers' Equalization crusade.

The drift of thought seems now to be in the direction of a number of special committees or organizations, with world-wide power delegated to them by existing governments in this group of matters or that, bodies concerned with the waste or development of natural wealth, with the equalization of labour conditions, with world peace, with currency, population and health, and so forth.