The Collaborative International Dictionary
Autotransformer \Au`to*trans*form"er\, n. [Auto- + transformer.] (Elec.) A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a compensator or balancing coil.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context literally English) A party or thing which compensates, pays or otherwise provides a compensation 2 Any device used to compensate for something, notably to achieve a better balance 3 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. 4 (context nautical English) One of several small magnets placed in the binnacle to neutralize the effect of the ship's metal on the compass
Wikipedia
Compensator can refer to:
- Pressure control on a piston pump
- An alternative term for pipeline expansion joints
- A muzzle brake, used to counter the recoil of a firearm, or to prevent the muzzle from climbing due to kickback from the rapid firing of an automatic or semi-automatic weapon
- A device that offsets or counterbalances a destabilising factor: See
- Buoyancy compensator (diving)
- Buoyancy compensator (aviation)
- Static VAR compensator
- Heisenberg compensator, key part of a Transporter (Star Trek)
- Lead-lag compensator
- Motion compensator
- Optical compensator, also known as a wave plate or a retarder
- another term for the ''dual-predictable projection' of a Point process
Usage examples of "compensator".
But, again, Sir, that assumes Peep compensator efficiency at max military power, and a Solly-built ship may be able to pull a higher accel than that.
While the volume of protection afforded by the enhanced field had been determined to be sufficient for tricking the compensator into treating Yuuzhan Vong-created gravitic anomalies like any others, the field could be overwhelmed by large dovin basals or a confluence of singularities, such as might easily be fashioned by three or more skips.
The faster merchantmen were starting to pull away from the group, pushing their impellers and inertial compensators to the limit as if trying to beat the pirate to his planned intercept point.
The radar autofocus and the image compensator kept the shape in view as it plummeted, then it disappeared behind the horizon.
But not by very much, and the Andies were just as insistent about avoiding unnecessary risks or wear on their compensators and impeller nodes as the Royal Manticoran Navy.
After a pause to cough, I added, "You think they oversurged their own compensators and backflushed their own fusion?
Yet even in a worst-case scenario, with the most modern compensators the Peeps had, there was no longer any way both bogeys could avoid action, given their overtake velocity and the current range.
But the most likely scenario was that the bogeys would remain at their current compensator settings and begin decelerating within the next twenty-four or twenty-five minutes.
For that matter, she must be riding the ragged edge of compensator burnout to maintain her present acceleration with a freighter's drive!
After adjusting her buoyancy compensator and cinching her weight belt, she and Rodgers made a final check of each other's equipment.
But they'd made enormous progress in closing the gap in just the nine and a half years since joining the Alliance, and "crude" didn't necessarily mean the same thing as "unsophisticated," as the new generation of inertial compensators amply demonstrated.
We've been refitting the new systems and weapons and compensators on an ad hoc basis since the war started, but over half our wall of battle units are at least two years behind the technology curve.
That's seriously hurting our ability to make full use of the new hardware, especially the compensators, since our squadrons are no longer homogenous.
We on the other hand, have a lot more tractor capability than they do, and the new Mars-class heavy cruisers have more brute impeller strength than their compensators can handle anyway.
The dreadnoughts had all received new compensators, but they were only second-generation upgrades with no more than a six percent efficiency boost over the old style.