compensare — 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.
- equalize verb To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree.
- offset noun Something that balances out or compensates for something else.
Senses
compensare is used for these senses in English:
- cancel (transitive) To offset or equalize something.
- equalize (underwater diving) To clear the ears to balance the pressure in the middle ear with the outside pressure by letting air enter along the Eustachian tubes.
- offset (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
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.