Compensating
41compensating balance — 1. Also, compensated balance, compensation balance. a balance wheel in a timepiece, designed to compensate for variations in tension in the hair spring caused by changes in temperature. 2. Banking. a deposit balance that is required to be left on …
42compensating calorimeter — an apparatus in which the object to be tested, such as a developing chick in an egg, is placed at one junction of a thermocouple and an electrical resistance at the other. From the amount of current that must pass through the resistance to keep… …
43compensating curvature — see under curve …
44compensating emphysema — compensatory emphysema overdistention of lung tissue, which fills a void produced by contraction, atelectasis, surgical resection, fibrosis, or otherwise reduced volume of another part of the lung …
45compensating eyepiece — an eyepiece especially designed to correct chromatic and spherical aberrations of the light rays produced by the objective …
46compensating balance — A sum of money deposited at a bank by a customer as a condition for the bank to lend money to the customer …
47compensating error — An error that is not revealed in a trial balance because one error is cancelled out by another error or errors …
48compensating balance — 1. An amount a bank can offset between a loan and a deposit. 2. Two or more accounting *balances that *offset one another …
49compensating balance — /ˌkɒmpənseɪt bæləns/ noun the amount of money which a customer has to keep in a bank account in order to get free services from the bank …
50compensating balance — The balance a borrower from a bank is required to keep on deposit as a condition of the loan or for continuing line of credit …