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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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It may be impossible to equalize productive resources in modern economies except through socializing ownership.
Empty cages were lifted up out of the water three times per week to equalize disturbance among treatments.
In a recent case in New York, a judge ruled that New York City schools were underfunded, and he ordered the state to equalize funding.
Democrats tend to try to equalize things through the instrumentality of government.
After two years, Chancellor Klein has ended a key initiative to equalize funding of city schools.
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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