Crossword clues for counterbalance
counterbalance
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Counterbalance \Coun`ter*bal"ance\ (-b?l"ans), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Counterbalanced (-anst); p. pr. & vb. n. Counterbalancing.] To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.
The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the
mercurial cylinder.
--Boyle.
The study of mind is necessary to counterbalance and
correct the influence of the study of nature.
--Sir W.
Hamilton.
Counterbalance \Coun"ter*bal`ance\ (koun"t?r-b?l`ans), n. A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another; as:
A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel.
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A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam.
Money is the counterbalance to all other things purchasable by it.
--Locke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context literally English) A weight that is put in opposition to an equal weight so it keeps that in balance. 2 (context figuratively English) A force or influence that balances, checks or limits an opposite one. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To apply weight in order to balance an opposing weight. 2 (context transitive English) To apply force in order to balance an opposite one. 3 (context transitive figuratively English) To match or equal in effect, but acting in opposition
WordNet
n. an equivalent counterbalancing weight [syn: counterweight, counterpoise, balance, equalizer, equaliser]
equality of distribution [syn: balance, equilibrium, equipoise]
a compensating equivalent [syn: offset]
v. adjust or make up for; "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance" [syn: compensate, correct, even out, even off, even up]
oppose with equal weight or force [syn: oppose]
oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions; "This will counteract the foolish actions of my colleagues" [syn: counteract, countervail, neutralize]
Usage examples of "counterbalance".
Without this counterbalance, any beanstalk should be inherently unstable and dangerous.
On the contrary, I was only wondering whether the honesty of voicing my hopes would nowise counterbalance the caddishness of the sort of stipulation they might imply.
Much less swiftly than Graakaak had, they dropped their torsos to horizontal, legs bent to compensate for lack of a counterbalancing tail-nub, stuck out their short necks, splayed their fringeless arms to the sides, and shouted their battle cries back at the High Chief.
The Madisonian notion that society needs a multiplicity of interests to counterbalance each other is particularly useful at this time in history.
With a click, the door of dense, semitranslucent material swung outward on counterbalanced hinges.
Such high-cost evolutionary features, like peacock tails and moose antlers, are generally only seen in cases of runaway sexual selection, where a trait evolves until the evolutionary cost of displaying it counterbalances the tremendous reproductive advantage it confers.
Leaving out the starting note in both tunes, has, I think, an effect that no regularity could counterbalance the want of.
But it is evident, whenever our arguments lose this advantage, and run wide of common life, that the most refined scepticism comes to be upon a footing with them, and is able to oppose and counterbalance them.
But however delightful the scenery of the country might be, its aesthetic attractions did not sufficiently counterbalance its agricultural disadvantages.
First of all, deliver your credentials at court, and let us join our endeavours to raise an interest strong enough to counterbalance that of Trebasi.
It also is a way for me to counterbalance the nonspiritual world of academia.
And anyway his suitcase, with its appalling tonnage, seemed to provide a chiropractic counterbalance to the sadistic burden of his mail sack.
Either the portal was counterbalanced or else the woman had a Bhor or a heavy-worlder on standby just to open and shut the clotting thing, Cind thought.
Overall, Kristans urban support groups were more than counterbalanced by Faction Nestars widely based country alliances, so neither side was in a position to make an open move against the other.
Besides, Germany sees itself as the one and only counterbalance to Russian encroachments in the Balkans.