Ausgleich — meaning in English
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English meaning
- compensation noun Money or another benefit given to make up for a loss, injury, or inconvenience.
- compromise noun An agreement reached when each side gives up part of what it wants.
- conciliation noun The process of bringing peace and harmony; the ending of strife.
- equation noun A mathematical statement that two expressions are equal, usually written with an equals sign.
- settlement noun A formal agreement that resolves a dispute, often involving payment.
Senses
Ausgleich is used for these senses in English:
- compensation Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss.
- compensation The relationship between air temperature outside a building and a calculated target temperature for provision of air or water to contained rooms or spaces for the purpose of efficient heating. In building control systems, the compensation curve is defined to a compensator for this purpose.
- compromise The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
- conciliation The process of bringing peace and harmony; the ending of strife.
- equalization The act of equalizing, or state of being equalized.
- equalizer (category theory) 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.
- equation The act or process of equating two or more things, or the state of those things being equal (that is, identical).
- hotchpot (civil law, inheritance) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
compensation — full definition
- noun Money or another benefit given to make up for a loss, injury, or inconvenience.
- noun Pay or reward given for work performed.
compromise — full definition
- noun An agreement reached when each side gives up part of what it wants.
- verb To settle a disagreement by each side making concessions.
- verb To weaken or damage something, or expose it to risk.