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Definition of Compensating
1. compensate [v] - See also: compensate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Compensating
Literary usage of Compensating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Direct Current Machines by Alexander Suss Langsdorf (1915)
"compensating Devices. — In a German patent granted to Menges in 1884 there is
the first exposition of the principle of compensating armature reaction. ..."
2. Electrical Machinery: A Practical Study Course on Installation, Operation by Fred Anzley Annett (1921)
"260 and windings, known as compensating windings, placed in these slots, ...
The current in the compensating windings flows in an opposite direction to that ..."
3. A Treatise on Surveying: Comprising the Theory and the Practice by William Mitchell Gillespie, Cady Staley (1897)
"A compensating Apparatus is intended to be so constructed that its ends are ...
Several different forms of compensating apparatus have been constructed and ..."
4. A Treatise on Surveying: Comprising the Theory and the Practice by William Mitchell Gillespie (1897)
"A compensating Apparatus is intended to be so constructed that its ends are ...
Several different forms of compensating apparatus have been constructed and ..."
5. Theory and Calculations of Electrical Apparatus by Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1917)
"This is accomplished by the compensating winding devised by Eickemeyer, by
surrounding the ... Massed field winding and distributed compensating winding. ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1837)
"On " The Mathematical Rules for constructing compensating Pendulums. ...
the several parts of compensating pendulums adopted by Captain Kater, and detailed ..."
7. Principles of Physics, Or Natural Philosophy: Designed for the Use of by Benjamin Silliman (1865)
"compensating pendulums.—The length of a pendulum »lone determines its times of
oscillation (82). A difference of one one-hundredth of nn inch in a seconds ..."
8. The British State Telegraphs: A Study of the Problem of a Large Body of by Hugo Richard Meyer (1907)
"The hours of work may not be increased without compensating every one affected.
Administrative "mistakes" may not be corrected without compensating the past ..."
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