Usually means: Device that offsets mechanical deficiencies.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word compensator:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. compensator: Merriam-Webster
  2. compensator: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. compensator: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Compensator, compensator: Wordnik
  5. compensator: Wiktionary
  6. compensator: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. Compensator, compensator: Dictionary.com
  8. Compensator (Control Theory), Compensator (control theory), Compensator: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Compensator: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. compensator: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Compensator: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. compensator: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Compensator: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compensator: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compensator: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. compensator: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. compensator: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Compensator: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Compensator: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See compensate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (compensator)

noun:  (literally) A party or thing which compensates, pays or otherwise provides a compensation
noun:  Any device used to compensate for something, notably to achieve a better balance.
noun:  A building control device used to deliver the compensation relationship or curve between the air temperature outside a building and the temperature of water or air provided to spaces or zones within the building for purposes of heating or cooling.
noun:  (nautical) One of several small magnets placed in the binnacle to neutralize the effect of the ship's metal on the compass

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