Ausgleich — meaning in English

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 ending a conflict and bringing back peace between people.
• 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

1. noun Money or another benefit given to make up for a loss, injury, or inconvenience.
2. noun Pay or reward given for work performed.

compromise — full definition

1. noun An agreement reached when each side gives up part of what it wants.
2. verb To settle a disagreement by each side making concessions.
3. verb To weaken or damage something, or expose it to risk.

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