The Collaborative International Dictionary
Equilibrate \E`qui*li"brate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Equilibrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Equilibrating.] [L.
aequilibratus in equilibrium; aequus equal + libra balance.
See Equilibrium.]
To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with
equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise.
--H.
Spenser.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To balance, or bring into equilibrium. 2 (context intransitive English) To balance, to be in a state of equilibrium.
WordNet
v. bring to a chemical stasis or equilibrium
bring into balance or equilibrium; "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights" [syn: balance, equilibrize, equilibrise] [ant: unbalance]
Usage examples of "equilibrate".
But because the brain is such a finely equilibrated and dynamic system, with great capacities for self-adjustment and control, the effect of disrupting its biochemistry by flooding it, via a pill, with some drug which affects protein synthesis, or particular neurotransmitters or neuromodulators, is more likely to be the equivalent of trying to retune a radio or reprogram a computer by jamming a screwdriver into its circuit boards.
I am Baphomet, that is the Eightfold Word that shall be equilibrated with the Three.
An equilibrated system has tensions in balance, like girders and trusses in a building.
A safety alarm shrilled automatically, but cut off when the module’s air pressure equilibrated again.
It is absolutely bone dry, and if you go out and look at the console or whatever you call it, you will find that the snow is not melting on it at all, because it has been sitting out in the U-Stor-It ever since your mother moved to the managed care facility and it has equilibrated to the ambient temperature which I think we can all testify is well below zero Celsius.