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/ˈikwəlˌaɪzər/ Listen

noun

Equalizer n.

One who, or that which, equalizes anything.

Same as Equalizing bar.

A device, as a bar, for operating two brakes, esp. a pair of hub brakes for an automobile, with equal force.

(Elec.) Any device for equalizing the pull of electromagnets; also, a conductor of low resistance joining the armature ends of the series field coils of dynamos connected in parallel.

(Aeronautics) A sliding panel to preserve the lateral stability of an aeroplane.

(Electronics) A device or circuit within a sound-reproducing system that reproduces the original frequency distribution of the sound before recording by compensating for inequialities in the frequency response of the system.

A gun. (slang)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... suppose, a characteristic one,—four or five old men and women towing a vessel into a dock. They bent beneath the rope that passed from shoulder to shoulder, and tugged away doggedly at it, the women apparently more than able to do their part. There is no equalizer of the sexes like poverty and misery, and then it very often happens that the gray mare proves the better horse. Throughout the agricultural regions, as we passed along, the men apparently all wore petticoats; at least, the petticoats were the ...

— Winter Sunshine • John Burroughs

... bigotry do their utmost to keep such spirits, while living, in the shades of obscurity, death, the great equalizer, always restores to its possessors the rights of mind, and bids them triumph for ever over the low prejudices of their fellow-men, who, when reading the works of Burns, or gazing on the paintings of Raphael, reproach them ...

— Life in the Clearings versus the Bush • Susanna Moodie