Dictionary

equalize en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈiːkwəlaɪz/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈikwəˌlaɪz/ (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *aikʷos? Old Latin aiquos Latin aequus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin aequālisbor. Middle English equal English equal Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English equalize From equal + -ize.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree.
   • No system of instruction will completely equalize natural powers. 1828, Richard Whately, Elements of Rhetoric:
   • to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes
   • One poor moment can suffice / To equalize the lofty and the low. 1815, William Wordsworth, Epitaph 3:
2. (obsolete, transitive) To be equal to; to equal, to rival.
   • polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
   • But a third kingdom yet is to arise / Out of the Trojans scattered ofspring, / That in all glory and great enterprise, / Both first and second Troy shall dare to equalise. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
3. (intransitive) To make the scoreline equal by scoring points.
4. To clear the ears to balance the pressure in the middle ear with the outside pressure by letting air enter along the Eustachian tubes.
5. (of a morphism) to precompose with each of a parallel pair of morphisms so as to yield the same composite morphism.
6. To adjust the balance between frequency components within an electronic signal.
   • The technique for frequency slewing of a transient is different from that for vibration testing in that it is necessary to equalize at low level as the clock frequency is slewed in relatively small increments from the nominal to the desired frequency. 1987, The Shock and Vibration Bulletin - Volume 57, Parts 1-4, page 35:

Forms

Deriveds

equaliser · disequalize · equalisation · coequalize · misequalize · equalization · equalizer · unequalized

Synonyms

even out

Translations (54)

fr égaliser (to make the score equal) · bg изравнявам (to make the score equal) · el εξισώνω (to make equal) · bo སྙོམ (to make equal) · pt igualar (to make equal) · mi whakataurite (to make equal) · hu egyenlít (to make the score equal) · ru уравня́ть (to make equal) · pt igualar (to make the score equal) · fi yhdenmukaistaa (to make the score equal) · uk зрівнювати (to make equal) · mi hōrite (to make equal) · ru выра́внивать (to make the score equal) · he השווה (to make the score equal) · fr égaliser (to make equal) · la aequō (to make equal) · uk вирі́внювати (to make equal) · bg изравнявам (to clear the ears) · es igualar (to make the score equal) · hu egalizál (to make equal) · ja 平等にする (to make the score equal) · es empatar (to make the score equal) · ru вы́ровнять (to make equal) · fi tasoittaa (to make the score equal) · io egaligar (to make equal) · fi yhtäläistää (to make the score equal) · it uguagliare (to make equal) · hu egyensúlyba hoz (to make equal) · kmr wekhev kirin (to make the score equal) · de ausgleichen (to make equal) · it uguagliare (to make the score equal) · bg изравнявам (to make equal) · de den Druck im Ohr ausgleichen (to clear the ears) · fi tasa-arvoistaa (to make equal) · fi tasapuolistaa (to make equal) · ru ура́внивать (to make equal) · mi whakaōrite (to make equal) · cmn 等化 (to make the score equal) · hu kiegyenlít (to make the score equal) · hu kiegyenlít (to make equal) · es igualar (to make equal) · gl igar (to make equal) · it compensare (to clear the ears) · ca igualar (to make equal) · cmn 平等化 (to make the score equal) · ru вы́ровнять (to make the score equal) · fi tasapäistää (to make the score equal) · uk зрівняти (to make equal) · gl igualar (to make equal) · uk ви́рівняти (to make equal) · de ausgleichen (to make the score equal) · ru выра́внивать (to make equal) · cmn 均等化 (to make the score equal) · fi tasata (to make equal)