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Example sentences for "compensating"

Lexicographically close words:
compendium; compendiums; compensate; compensated; compensates; compensation; compensations; compensator; compensators; compensatory
  1. When the fish is rotated round different axes there are compensating movements of the eyes and fins.

  2. It must free you from compensating the compass for errors.

  3. An attempt is then made to so adjust or manipulate the compensating magnets to eliminate the error found.

  4. Illustration] Freedom From Compensation After the navigator has made calculations for the deviation errors of the Magnetic Compass, they must be applied by means of manipulating the soft iron globes and compensating magnets.

  5. The compensating leads are joined to the copper leads, and the junction forced down to the bottom of the pipe.

  6. The compensating leads enter the box and copper leads run from the compensating box to the instrument, so that the cold junction is within the box.

  7. Where the greatest accuracy is desired a compensating box will overcome cold-junction errors entirely.

  8. This gives a means of compensating for cold end changes by setting the slider D.

  9. That man, immured in cities, still retains His inborn inextinguishable thirst Of rural scenes, compensating his loss By supplemental shifts, the best he may?

  10. But the overwhelming advantages of being encumbered with no imagination occasionally--very occasionally--have compensating drawbacks.

  11. It is the case that his parent's disappearance was not without compensating advantages.

  12. I mean--well, everything has its compensating disadvantages.

  13. Perhaps such compensating currents are found west of the magnetic poles, as we have suggested, and make the N.

  14. Beneath an external gloss of refinement, these princes were, as a class, coarse and selfish, and devoid of any compensating virtues.

  15. She has aspirations after the impossible, and is herself far from probable; she regards her husband as an unnecessary evil, and her children as disturbances without compensating advantages.

  16. With this attachment, the two gears listed on the index plate for the actual number of flutes are selected, and then two compensating gears are added, thus forming a compound train of gearing.

  17. That of the master will require a provision in the plan for compensating a loss of what he held as property, guaranteed by the laws, and recognised by the Constitution.

  18. And if our efforts succeed in improving their intellectual and moral condition, and in imparting to them a correct knowledge of the only true God, we shall do much towards compensating them for all the wrongs they have sustained.

  19. We count the planting of nuts in place troublesome and of no compensating advantage.

  20. It is coarser in flesh than the French and generally flatter in flavor when cooked and thus falls below the ideal of a cured prune, but it has compensating characters, such as early ripening, with which no other prune compares.

  21. We are not aware that any compensating principle exists.

  22. However, if there are those who say that the universe in action is eternal, through the operation of compensating principles as yet undiscovered, no man of science is at present equipped to prove the contrary.

  23. As the animal life and vegetable life mutually support each other, the kind of material necessary for maintaining the 'compensating system' must be watchfully supplied.

  24. The self-compensating floor swung back and up; Chet's weight was almost unbearable as the ship beneath him leaped out and on, and the terrific blast that screamed and thundered urged this speeding shell to greater and still greater speed.

  25. Glass almost enclosed the cage of bars, and the whole instrument swung with the self-compensating platform that adjusted itself to the "gravitation" of accelerated speed.

  26. In the room where the three were confined, there were no self-compensating chairs such as the high-liners used.

  27. No doubt there is plenty of compensating excitement about that.

  28. A gipsy's heart and a poet's dreams would have gone very far towards compensating to me, at least, for idleness and incompetence.

  29. The compensating nozzle construction is not influenced as much by changes of altitude as the simpler nozzle types are.

  30. Remember that the main jet and compensating jet have no appreciable effect on the idling of the engine.

  31. When these members are an integral part of the cylinder the only method of compensating for this wear is to drill the guide out and fit a bushing, which may be made of steel tube.

  32. When chains are used it is advised that some means for compensating chain slack be provided, or the valve timing will lag when chains are worn.

  33. The absolute owner of land was no longer allowed to deal with it as he pleased without compensating those to whom he leased it, and a poor tenant was expressly prevented from agreeing to his own injury.

  34. The Employers' Liability Bill, compensating workmen for injuries caused by the neglect of fellow-workmen under the rank of foreman, was so amended by the Lords that it had to be dropped.

  35. It still remains, therefore, to bring the telescope to perfection, and to find the manner of compensating this different reflexibility, as we have discovered that of compensating the different refrangibility.

  36. Administrative "mistakes" may not be corrected without compensating the past beneficiaries of such mistakes.

  37. Violation of the order that promotion must not be mechanical, or by seniority alone, may not be corrected without compensating those civil servants who would have been benefitted by the continued violation of the aforesaid order.

  38. The hours of work may not be increased without compensating every one affected.

  39. The State may not demand increased efficiency of its servants without compensating every one affected.

  40. The floor sadly showed its unacquaintance with soap and scrubbing-brush, but there were compensating advantages.

  41. Viewed from the physiologic standpoint, hypertension is but the expression of a compensating mechanism which is designed to keep the blood moving through narrowed channels.

  42. This is a compensating process to accommodate the increased charge from the left ventricle.

  43. The old Free Stater mentioned before expressed the expectation that the present war and trials will tend to check that declension, and in that way prove to have a compensating character for good.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compensating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adverse; antagonistic; anti; antipathetic; antithetical; balancing; clashing; compensating; compensatory; conflicting; confronting; contradictory; contrary; converse; counter; discordant; discrepant; hostile; inconsistent; inimical; inverse; lucrative; obverse; offsetting; opposed; opposing; opposite; oppositional; paying; penitential; perverse; profitable; remunerative; reparative; repugnant; retaliatory; retributive; reverse; rewarding; satisfying; saving