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Equalizer

noun

Electronic equipment that reduces frequency distortion. Synonym: equaliser.

A weight that balances another weight. Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser.

A score that makes the match even.

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"Equalizer" Quotes from Famous Books

... problem is, in the space of one hour, more or less, to bring them all into the same condition of slightly exalted life. Food alone is enough for one person, perhaps,—talk, alone, for another; but the grand equalizer and fraternizer, which works up the radiators to their maximum radiation, and the absorbents to their maximum receptivity, is now just where ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... as a diagnostic; as an equalizer of the circulation; as a general counter-irritant; as a general invigorant and tonic—Its hypnotic and sedative influence—Its improvement ...

— The Electric Bath • George M. Schweig

... him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity. Nothing out of its place is good and nothing in its place is bad. He bestows on every object or quality its fit proportions neither more nor less. He is the arbiter of the diverse and he is the key. He is the equalizer of his age and land ... he supplies what wants supplying and checks what wants checking. If peace is the routine out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building vast and populous cities, encouraging agriculture and the arts and commerce—lighting the study ...

— Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations • Charles W. Eliot

... THE DEAD.—Death was a great equalizer among the Egyptians. King and peasant alike must stand before the judgment-seat of Osiris and ...

— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers

... every house on this block there was a piano. The piano was the great equalizer of the block. And, though in the loftier houses the pianos might have been larger and costlier, and unquestionably noisier, it did not follow that they were better played or pleasanter to hear than the humbler instruments ...

— Round the Block • John Bell Bouton