- Compensation - The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner,
or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or
injury; indemnification. - That which is offered or given in return for what has
been lost, injured, or destroved; compensation. - The act of returning to, or recovering, a former
state; as, the restitution of an elastic body. - The movement of rotetion which usually occurs in
childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the
latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the
beginning of labor.