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Equilibration

Equilibration \E`qui*li*bra"tion\, n.

  1. Act of keeping a balance, or state of being balanced; equipoise.

    In . . . running, leaping, and dancing, nature's laws of equilibration are observed.
    --J. Denham.

  2. (Biol.) The process by which animal and vegetable organisms preserve a physiological balance.
    --H. Spenser.

Wiktionary
equilibration

n. The formation, or maintenance, of an equilibrium

WordNet
equilibration

n. stabilization by bringing into equilibrium

Usage examples of "equilibration".

Only with the emergence of formal operational thinking could these conflicts come to some sort of peace or resolution, which Piaget called equilibration, a type of balanced but dynamic harmony.

Those that flew and could still depend upon their wings and their equilibration arose in the air, some so sharply that they collided.

After allowing equilibration, he tied the monkey down and positioned the scanner overhead.