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Equalizer
//ˈiː.kwəˌlaɪ.zə// noun, slang
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who makes equal; a balancer.
"Death is the great equalizer."
- 2 a score that makes the match even wordnet
- 3 A device that balances various quantities.
- 4 a weight that balances another weight wordnet
- 5 A goal, run, point, etc. that equalizes the score.
"[Bendtner was central to it at all, firstly firing home, via a deflection off Gareth McAuley, after being teed up by Sebastien Larsson's neat backheel, and then a minute later crossing for Elmohamady to head in an equaliser."
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- 6 electronic equipment that reduces frequency distortion wordnet
- 7 An electronic audio device for altering the frequencies of sound recordings.
"Several digital effects are supported by Deck, ranging from a digital equalizer, which lets you accentuate or attenuate certain frequencies, to a stereoizer, which processes a mono- phonic recording to simulate stereo."
- 8 A device, such as a bar, for operating two brakes, especially a pair of hub brakes for an automobile, with equal force.
- 9 Any device for equalizing the pull of electromagnets.
- 10 A conductor of low resistance joining the armature ends of the series field coils of dynamos connected in parallel.
- 11 A sliding panel to preserve the lateral stability of an aeroplane.
- 12 A set of arguments where two or more functions have equal values; the solution set of an equation.
- 13 A morphism whose codomain is the domain of a parallel pair of morphisms and which forms part of the limit of that parallel pair. Equivalently, a morphism which equalizes a parallel pair of morphisms in a limiting way, which is to say that any other morphism which equalizes that parallel pair factors through this limiting morphism; and moreover such factorization is unique.
- 14 A weapon, usually a blackjack or gun. Canada, US, slang
"Familiar epithets for the revolver were equalizer, shootin' iron . . . smoke wagon."
Etymology
From equalize + -er (nominal suffix: agent noun).
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