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misequalize

misequalize verb: to equalize badly.

Verb

misequalize (third-person singular simple present misequalizes, present participle misequalizing, simple past and past participle misequalized)

  1. (transitive) To equalize badly.
    • At one time, U.S. Decca listed a large number of these performances, pressed on less than the best material, often misequalized, sometimes off pitch.1979, Journal - Association for Recorded Sound Collections, page 124
    • The most common symptom of incorrect equalization (assuming good associated equipment) is a bright, hard, elevated roughness of response above approximately 2 kHz. I think all of us have heard systems misequalized that way.1981, The Absolute Sound - Volume 6, Issues 21-24, page 73

Forms of misequalize

third-person singular presentmisequalizes
present participlemisequalizing
past participlemisequalized
pastmisequalized

Origin of misequalize

From mis- + equalize.

Questions about misequalize

What does misequalize mean?
Misequalize means to equalize badly.
What part of speech is misequalize?
Misequalize is a verb.
What is the past tense of misequalize?
The past tense of misequalize is misequalized.

Words near misequalize in the dictionary

  1. misenunciates
  2. misenunciating
  3. misenunciation
  4. misenunciations
  5. misequalization
  6. misequalize
  7. misequalized
  8. misequalizes
  9. misequalizing
  10. miser
  11. miserabilism

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