COMPENSATION

recompense, compensation

(noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury

compensation

(noun) something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)

compensation

(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

compensation (countable and uncountable, plural compensations)

The act or principle of compensating.

Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss.

Synonyms: amends, remuneration, recompense

The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount.

Synonym: set-off

A recompense or reward for service.

An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc, shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.

The relationship between air temperature outside a building and a calculated target temperature for provision of air or water to contained rooms or spaces for the purpose of efficient heating. In building control systems the compensation curve is defined to a compensator for this purpose.

(neuroscience) The ability of one part of the brain to overfunction in order to take over the function of a damaged part (e.g. following a stroke).

Coordinate term: degeneracy

Synonyms

• (act of compensating): restitution

• (recompense or reward): restitution

Anagrams

• camponotines, companion set

Source: Wiktionary

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Com`pen*sa"tion, n. Etym: [L. compensatio a weighing, a balancing of accounts.]

1. The act or principle of compensating. Emerson.

2. That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense. The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations . . . vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners. Hallam. No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them. Burke.

3. (Law) (a) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off. Bouvier. Wharton. (b) A recompense or reward for some loss or service. (c) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real eatate, in which it is customary to privide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation. Compensation balance, or Compensated balance, a kind of balance wheel for a timepiece. The rim is usually made of two different expansibility under changes of temperature, so arranged as to counteract each other and preserve uniformity of movement.

– Compensation pendulum. See Pendulum.

Syn.

– Recompense; reward; indemnification; consideration; requital; satisfaction; set-off.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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