Adjusting so as to neutralize or balance differences; producing compensation; characterized by compensation; compensatory.

verb. Present participle of compensate.

"In the early years of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and even one author's experience under the CISP program, the term compensating control was used to describe everything from a legitimate work-around for a security challenge to a shortcut to compliance."

compensating compound wedge  compensating exciter  

adversative  adverse  adversive  amendatory  antagonistic  

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