equalizer
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equalizer (plural equalizers)
- One who makes equal; a balancer.
- (sports) A goal, run, point, etc. that equalizes the score.
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2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- [Bendtner was central to it at all, firstly firing home, via a deflection off Gareth McAuley, after being teed up by Sebastien Larsson's neat backheel, and then a minute later crossing for Elmohamady to head in an equaliser.
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2011 May 16, Mike Driscoll, “Pirates plunder top spot with late attack”, in Illawarra Mercury[2], page 36:
- Mariners scored a run in the seventh inning and the equaliser in the top of the ninth, after Braves’ starting pitcher Ashley Crump had dominated—throwing six scoreless innings for just two hits.
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- A electronic audio device for altering the frequencies of sound recordings.
- A device, such as a bar, for operating two brakes, especially a pair of hub brakes for an automobile, with equal force.
- Any device for equalizing the pull of electromagnets.
- A conductor of low resistance joining the armature ends of the series field coils of dynamos connected in parallel.
- A sliding panel to preserve the lateral stability of an aeroplane.
- (mathematics) A set of arguments where two or more functions have equal values; the solution set of an equation.
- (category theory) A morphism whose codomain is the domain of a parallel pair of morphisms and which forms part of the limit of that parallel pair. Equivalently, a morphism which equalizes a parallel pair of morphisms in a limiting way, which is to say that any other morphism which equalizes that parallel pair factors through this limiting morphism.
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a balancer
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a goal that equalizes the score
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device for altering audio frequencies
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