What is "counterbalanced"

Usage examples of "counterbalanced".

With a click, the door of dense, semitranslucent material swung outward on counterbalanced hinges.

I told you that, Kai," said Gaber, his aggrieved tone somewhat counterbalanced by a rueful smile.

Rearing up, counterbalanced by the huge tail, it tried to grab at the sled.

He tensed in one direction until Irongrip counterbalanced, then Fiben whirled and threw his weight the other way while he kicked out.

He attained a small advantage of leverage which just counterbalanced Irongrip's horrendous strength.

Standing, Eidhafor would lean forward on tyrannosaurian legs, counterbalanced by a heavy tail.

They were more than counterbalanced by those who swore allegiance to the new claimant.

The popular modes of religion, that propose any visible and material objects of worship, have the advantage of adapting and familiarizing themselves to the senses of mankind: but this advantage is counterbalanced by the various and inevitable accidents to which the faith of the idolater is exposed.

The authority of Jornandes, who praises the beauty of Placidia, may perhaps be counterbalanced by the silence, the expressive silence, of her flatterers: yet the splendor of her birth, the bloom of youth, the elegance of manners, and the dexterous insinuation which she condescended to employ, made a deep impression on the mind of Adolphus.

As he spoke, he pulled the door closed on the chamber's counterbalanced hinges and it clicked true with a solid latching sound.

He knew there were risks, yet his perception was counterbalanced by a weakness: Lodge was excited by talent.

The only thing the terrorists could do was kill prisoners to demonstrate intent, but even that option was counterbalanced by that unwritten but well-known rule: Once the killing starts the assault forces go in, and too damn bad about the consequences.

Even with its counterbalanced hinges, he was surprised by how little effort it required.

When they were together on the flat slab just after the crawl between two counterbalanced boulders that was later to be known as the Keyhole, Le Cagot struck off a magnesium flare, and the stygian chaos of that great cavern was seen for the first time in the numberless millennia of its existence.

When at last he made the fiat ledge between two counterbalanced boulders that was the keyhole to the Climbing Cave, he lay out flat on his stomach and rested, his cheek against the rock and saliva dripping from the corner of his mouth.