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What does equalize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word equalize? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To be equal to; to equal, to rival. [16th-19th c.]
  3. (intransitive, sports) To make the scoreline equal by scoring points. [from 20th c.]
  4. (underwater diving) To clear the ears to balance the pressure in the middle ear with the outside pressure by letting air enter along the Eustachian tubes.
  5. (category theory) Said of a morphism: to pre-compose with each of a parallel pair of morphisms so as to yield the same composite morphism.
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Worse, as the streams bend to equalize pressure behind the foil, and may set up a turbulent gyre further slowing the foil by induced drag.
There should be a push to equalize the funding of inner city schools with that of schools in the suburban areas.
After two years, Chancellor Klein has ended a key initiative to equalize funding of city schools.
Democrats tend to try to equalize things through the instrumentality of government.
Families are encouraged to take piped water into their homes via looped networks instead of branched ones, to equalize water pressure.
For more than two decades, lawsuits to equalize school funding have been wending their way through the courts in 44 states.

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