Meaning & use
Equilibrate
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To bring into or maintain a state of balance or equilibrium.
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The engineer adjusted the weights to equilibrate the scale.
Central banks try to equilibrate supply and demand for currency.
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Equilibrate is the verb form behind 'equilibrium,' both tracing to Latin aequus (equal) and libra (balance, scale).
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