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Pronunciation
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Noun
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- The act or principle of compensate|compensating.
- That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense.
- The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off.
- A recompense or reward for some loss or service.
- An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of 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.
Derived terms
over-compensation
Translations
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Finnish: kompensaatio, korvaus, hyvitys, palkka, vastike
French: indemnisation f
German: Kompensation f
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Hebrew: פ�צ�� (pitzui) m (for loss or lack of something else); ת���� (tagmul) m (for work or service)
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