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compensator 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
  1. A party or thing which compensates, pays or otherwise provides a compensation; Any device used to compensate for something, notably to achieve a better balance; A building control device used to deliver the compensation relationship or curve between the air temperature outside a building and ...
  2. (Compensators) In RCT, postulations of reward according to explanations that are not readily susceptible to unambiguous evaluation: roughly translated, promises of Rewards of some generality.
  3. A horizontal bar which is pulled forward when the parkbrake is applied at its central point, which is pivoted, while it is connected at each end to the parkbrake cable, enabling equal force to be exerted on each rear brake. ...
  4. The person, who caused the accident, injury or disease, or, more commonly, their insurer.
  5. An electrical matching network to compensate for electrical impedance differences.
  6. A device which eliminates the effect of an unmeasured variable or condition on the measurement of interest.
  7. A specially measured slab of material placed in the treatment beam to allow selective transmission of areas of the treatment beam to compensate for unevenness of machine output or body contour. Compensators vary greatly in complexity depending upon use requirements.
  8. An expansion joint designed to take up thermal expansion. (099)
  9. A recoil-reducing device which mounts on the muzzle of a gun to deflect part of the powder gases up and rearward. Also called a "muzzle brake".
  10. A remote device that involves multiple shear pads to help peg-in-hole operations. The shear pads are elastomers, also known as polymers and the device uses three to twelve of these shear pads.