Crossword clues for counterweight
counterweight
Wiktionary
n. A heavy mass of often iron or concrete, mechanically linked in opposition to a load which is to be raised and lowered, with the intent of reducing the amount of work which must be done to effect the raising and lowering. Counterweights are used, for example, in cable-hauled elevators and some kinds of movable bridges (e.g. a bascule bridge). vb. (context transitive English) To fit with a counterweight.
WordNet
n. an equivalent counterbalancing weight [syn: counterbalance, counterpoise, balance, equalizer, equaliser]
v. constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to [syn: counterpoise, counterpose]
Wikipedia
A counterweight is an equivalent counterbalancing weight that balances a load. Its purpose is to make lifting the load more efficient, which saves energy and is less taxing on the lifting machine.
Counterweights are often used in traction lifts (elevators), cranes and funfair rides. In these applications, the expected load multiplied by the distance that load will be spaced from the central support (called the "tipping point") must be equal to the counterweight's mass times its distance from the tipping point in order to prevent over-balancing either side. This distance times mass is called the load moment.
A counterbalance is a weight or force that balances or offsets another as when two objects of equal weight, power, or influence are acting in opposition to each other. The objects are then said to be in counterbalance.
"Counterweight" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 26 December 1964, during the second season.
Usage examples of "counterweight".
Habitat and asteroid: they functioned as counterweights on the ends of the tether.
Wyomings possessed one swooper completely sheathed with inertron and counterweighted with ultron.
The echoing clangour of the chain and counterweights that dead Thienz had used to secure his tomb had scarcely faded from hearing when his chest shuddered into motion.
Muscle had to be placed in the breasts, so the stomach could do more counterweighting and less supporting, but those breasts, thirty centimeters long, would stick almost straight out.
We were still close to the station, and Abdul's men would have to pass those counterweights to get into position to defend against a counterattack.
This sent the counterweights flying outward at a good clip while the cable came whipping inward.
Conan said, "Abdul has been spreading his men out through the counterweights, and they report two enemy armies, Mark XIX tanks, maybe twenty thousand of them.
It was turned by prisoners and slaves, chained to its bars, but these men, without the assistance of the gigantic counterweights, also within the tower, could not have moved it.
There are two counterweights, as I have mentioned, which partially balance the weight of the gate.
It swung smoothly open at his touch, the counterweights creaking loudly in the silence.
It swung smoothly back under his hand, the ancient counterweights barely whispering despite their long years of neglect.
He suspected that once the counterweights in the wall started moving, the momentum might take over.
The chamber's only entrance was secured by a studded door and a clumsy mechanism of counterweights and chain.
Pop grasped it by the roof and pulled it off its hook, indifferent to the counterweights, which immediately became entangled in one another's chains, and to the pendulum, which snapped off when one of the disturbed chains tried to twine around it.
He clutched the clock by its roof, swinging it back and forth indifferently, not hearing the cluds and clunks from inside it, or the occasional strangled sound that might have been the bird trying to escape, not noticing when one of the counterweights smacked the end of an old bed, snapped off, and went rolling beneath, leaving a deep trail in the undisturbed dust of years.