compenser — meaning in English
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English meaning
- cancel verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
- compensate verb To pay someone money to make up for a loss, injury, or inconvenience.
- offset noun Something that balances out or compensates for something else.
- trim verb To cut away excess from something to neaten it.
Senses
compenser is used for these senses in English:
- cancel (transitive) To offset or equalize something.
- make up To compensate, to fill in, to catch up.
- offset (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
- trim (transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust the positions of control surfaces, sometimes using trim tabs, so as to modify or eliminate the aircraft's tendency to pitch, roll, or yaw when the cockpit controls are released.
cancel — full definition
- verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
- verb To make something officially invalid.
- verb In mathematics, to remove a common factor from both parts of a fraction or equation.
- verb Informally, to withdraw public support from someone over controversial behaviour.
compensate — full definition
- verb To pay someone money to make up for a loss, injury, or inconvenience.
- verb To make up for a weakness or problem by adjusting something else.