1 the point in a game or competition that gives both teams or players the same score:
2 electronic equipment that adjusts (= makes slight changes to) the frequency of recorded sound to make it sound better:
Stereos typically have adjustable equalizers that boost or cut bass or treble frequencies.
Immigrants to America discovered that embracing baseball was a great equalizer.
The standardized exam was once thought to be an equalizer of the classes.
Sports were his equalizer, the one part of his life where his skin color never mattered.
Reserve Cobi Jones scored a dramatic equalizer during injury time.
The equalizer came when Cullen angled a header into the corner of the net in the 41st minute.
The iPod's built-in equalizer made subtle changes to the sound.
The mixer combines sounds from multiple sources while adjusting the volume of each source as well as shaping the sounds by way of an equalizer.
