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noun
Equalizer  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
2.
Same as Equalizing bar.
3.
A device, as a bar, for operating two brakes, esp. a pair of hub brakes for an automobile, with equal force.
4.
(Elec.) Any device for equalizing the pull of electromagnets; also, a conductor of low resistance joining the armature ends of the series field coils of dynamos connected in parallel.
5.
(Aeronautics) A sliding panel to preserve the lateral stability of an aeroplane.
6.
(Electronics) A device or circuit within a sound-reproducing system that reproduces the original frequency distribution of the sound before recording by compensating for inequialities in the frequency response of the system.
7.
A gun. (slang)





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"Equalizer" Quotes from Famous Books



... every house on this block there was a piano. The piano was the great equalizer of the block. And, though in the loftier houses the pianos might have been larger and costlier, and unquestionably noisier, it did not follow that they were better played or pleasanter to hear than the humbler instruments ...
— Round the Block • John Bell Bouton
... him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity. Nothing out of its place is good and nothing in its place is bad. He bestows on every object or quality its fit proportions neither more nor less. He is the arbiter of the diverse and he is the key. He is the equalizer of his age and land ... he supplies what wants supplying and checks what wants checking. If peace is the routine out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building vast and populous cities, encouraging agriculture and the arts and commerce—lighting the study ...
— Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations • Charles W. Eliot
... as a diagnostic; as an equalizer of the circulation; as a general counter-irritant; as a general invigorant and tonic—Its hypnotic and sedative influence—Its improvement ...
— The Electric Bath • George M. Schweig


Words linked to "Equalizer" :   counterbalance, weight, counterpoise, electronic equipment, counterweight


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