The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compensate \Com"pen*sate\ (? or ?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Compensated; p. pr. & vb. n. Compensating.] [L. compensatus, p. p. of compensare, prop., to weigh several things with one another, to balance with one another, verb intens. fr. compendere. See Compendium.]
To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.
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To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.
The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day.
--Bacon.The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries.
--Prior.Syn: To recompense; remunerate; indemnify; reward; requite; counterbalance.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of compensate English)
Usage examples of "compensating".
My arms were well muscled from years of hauling myself around while compensating for the lameness of my leg.
The internal barriers to destruction were compensating, rerouting, rebuilding, changing, and adapting for their unconscious host.
Spotlights around the curving walls shone stark white beams on the starship’s leaden hull, compensating for the pallid slivers of sunlight falling on the station while it was in Idria’s penumbra.
Reza raised the mace and started to walk forwards, a locomotion auto-balance program compensating for his lost arm.
Ione reprogrammed her suit actuators to take it into account, making sure the serjeants didn’t go power leaping and compensating for the coriolis factor.
Sergeov was so sure that Percells were special-well, okay, Sergeov probably had to think that, compensating for what he’d never have.
Nothing to do about it now except continue in as straight a line as possible, compensating for the current pushing down from the north, to his right, working toward the entrance to the underground passage.
The powerful mule engines were compensating like crazy, finding power from places there weren’t even places.
Something automatic was working, compensating, fighting back, flushing strength to places where it was most needed.
But when he lifted them to his eyes some kind of electronics in the optics started to work, and the test stand leapt into his view, as detailed as if he was standing next to it, the image as steady as a rock, the glasses somehow compensating for the shake of his hands.
His binoculars dimmed themselves down, compensating for that surge of brilliance, obscuring the rest of the test stand structure and dimming the bright blue sky to a muddy grey.
Behind their public tears shed for compensating their artists—and since when did that become a concern of the music industry?
The simple brilliance of US anti-trust law is not in punishing the pricefixers (though it does that, with fines or jail time) but in compensating victims.
The powerful mule engines were compensating like crazy, finding power from places there weren't even places.