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Human labor, through all its forms, from the sharpening of a stake to the construction of a city or an epic, is one immense illustration of the perfect compensation of the universe.
Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss.
1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II., volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray,, →OCLC:
The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations […] vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners.
1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension,, 10th edition, London: J. Owen,, and F and C Rivington,, →OCLC:
No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them.
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.
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