equilibrate

English

Etymology

From the participle stem of Late Latin *aequilībrō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iːkwɪˈlɪbɹeɪt/, /iːˈkwɪlɪbɹeɪt/

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Verb

equilibrate (third-person singular simple present equilibrates, present participle equilibrating, simple past and past participle equilibrated)

1. (transitive) To balance, or bring into equilibrium.
   • 2010, Giancarlo Gandolfo, Economic Dynamics, 4th edition, Springer, page 303:

     [Walras] was well aware of the indirect influences of the changes in the other prices, but he assumed that these influences were some equilibrating and some disequilibrating, so that up to a certain point they cancelled each other out; hence the prevailing effect war the stabilizing one of the ‘own’ price.

   • 2019, George Alogoskoufis, Dynamic Macroeconomics, MIT Press, page 449:

     The perfectly competitive new classical models that we analyzed in chapters 13 and 14 are examples of DSGE models in which wages and prices are perfectly flexible and equilibrate both the product and labor markets.

   • 2024, Lapo Bini, Lucrezia Reichlin and Giovanni Ricco, “A Hundred Years of Business Cycles and the Phillips Curve”, in CEPR Discussion Papers, number DP19552, CEPR, page 9:

     Their equilibrium level is due to both trend inflation and $r^{*}$, the real neutral rate of interest that equilibrates the economy in the long run.

2. (intransitive) To balance, to be in a state of equilibrium.

Synonyms

• equilibrize

Derived terms

• disequilibrate
• equilibrative
• preequilibrate
• reequilibrate

Related terms

• equilibrium
• equilibrize

Translations

to balance, or bring into equilibrium

• Bulgarian: уравновесявам (bg) (uravnovesjavam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: （使）平衡

• Finnish: tasapainottaa (fi)
• Romanian: echilibra (ro)
• Spanish: equilibrar (es)

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eku̯iliˈbrate/, /ekviliˈbrate/

Verb

equilibrate

1. adverbial present passive participle of equilibrar

Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

equilibrate

1. feminine plural of equilibrato

Participle

equilibrate f pl

1. feminine plural of equilibrato

Etymology 2

Verb

equilibrate

1. inflection of equilibrare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Spanish

Verb

equilibrate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of equilibrar combined with te