adjective
Etymology: from present participle of compensate
: serving or functioning as a compensation (as for some irregularity or flaw) ; especially of an auxiliary electrical or mechanical device : correcting performance that has been adversely affected by some operating variant (as by friction in a watt-hour meter, pressure in a main cylinder, or variation in an electronic circuit impedance)
• com·pen·sat·ing·ly | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ adverb