(n.) Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate.
(n.) Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.
(n.) The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.
(n.) An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account.
(n.) A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).
(n.) The constellation Libra.
(n.) The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September.
(n.) A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i., S.
(n.) To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance.
(n.) To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.
(n.) To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize.
(n.) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
(n.) To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them.
(n.) To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal; -- said of an item; as, this payment, or credit, balances the account.
(n.) To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits; as, to balance a set of books.
(n.) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners.
(n.) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail.
(v. i.) To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance.
(v. i.) To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate.
(v. i.) To move toward a person or couple, and then back.
Example Sentences:
(1) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(2) Patients had improved sitting balance and endurance after surgery.
(3) Postpartum management is directed toward decreasing vasospasm and central nervous system irritability and maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance.
(4) "And in my judgment, when the balance is struck, the factors for granting relief in this case easily outweigh the factors against.
(5) Under these conditions, arterial pressure and sodium balance remained stable.
(6) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
(7) Some dental applications of the pressure measuring sheet, such as the measurement of biting pressure and balance during normal and unilateral biting, were examined.
(8) Knapman concluded that the 40-year-old designer, whose full name was Lee Alexander McQueen, "killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed".
(9) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
(10) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
(11) Accumulating evidence indicates that for most tumors, the switch to the angiogenic phenotype depends upon the outcome of a balance between angiogenic stimulators and angiogenic inhibitors, both of which may be produced by tumor cells and perhaps by certain host cells.
(12) For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose.
(13) These results suggest that a lowered basal energy expenditure and a reduced glucose-induced thermogenesis contribute to the positive energy balance which results in relapse of body weight gain after cessation of a hypocaloric diet.
(14) Whenever you are ill and a medicine is prescribed for you and you take the medicine until balance is achieved in you and then you put that medicine down.” Farrakhan does not dismiss the doctrine of the past, but believes it is no longer appropriate for the present.
(15) Temperature, heart rate and respiratory rate as well as enzymatic activities (CK, CK-MB, AST, LDH), and characteristics of base-acid-balance (pH, BE, pCO2, Lactate) were taken from 52 pigs during the period shortly before and after they gave birth.
(16) The cells were taken from cultures in low-density balanced exponential growth, and the experiments were performed quickly so that the bacteria were in a uniform physiological state at the time of measurement.
(17) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
(18) Blockade of beta-adrenoceptors interferes with haemodynamic and metabolic adaptations and ion balance during dynamic exercise.
(19) The observation of positive side-effects in these cases balances this possibility to some extent.
(20) While it’s not unknown to see such self-balancing mini scooters on the pavement, under legal guidance reiterated on Monday by the Crown Prosecution Service all such “personal transporters”, including hoverboards and Segways , are banned from the footpath.
Equipoise
Definition:
(n.) Equality of weight or force; hence, equilibrium; a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are balanced, and hence equal; state of being equally balanced; -- said of moral, political, or social interests or forces.
(n.) Counterpoise.
Example Sentences:
(1) As an editor, I think that aura of equipoise turns out to be very helpful, because you have so many people here who are professional neurotics, always acting out, drama queens, who have one form of craziness or another.
(2) The Equipoise clasp can be used with success for, among others, the Kennedy Class IV case if the correct clinical and laboratory procedures are followed.
(3) According to this concept of "clinical equipoise," the requirement is satisfied if there is genuine uncertainty within the expert medical community--not necessarily on the part of the individual investigator--about the preferred treatment.
(4) The ethics of clinical research requires equipoise--a state of genuine uncertainty on the part of the clinical investigator regarding the comparative therapeutic merits of each arm in a trial.
(5) The highly genetically heterogeneous foundation population was produced by the equipoised intercrossing of eight inbred strains of mice, and selective breeding carried out by assortative matings of extreme phenotypes.
(6) The types of steroid used were investigated and revealed that on average, four different types of anabolic steroid were used during the year, with individual use ranging from one to fifteen different types; including Dianabol, Deca Durabolin, Anavar, Testosterone, Androl 50, Winstrol, Primobolan, Equipoise, Finaject, Parabolin, HCG, Primacetate, Enanthate, Halotestin, and Maxibolin, in order of the most to least frequently used.
(7) If clinicians are equally divided, there is a state of collective equipoise and a trial is ethical.
(8) The modified Equipoise clasp has been developed to overcome the negative aesthetics of anterior clasping.
(9) However, no "modern" retention complex (Nally & Martinet--R.P.I.--R.P.A.--"equipoise"...)
(10) The Black Act’s sweeping brutality was wholly at odds with any notion of Georgian social equipoise.
(11) The female bodybuilders reported that they had used an average of two different steroids including Deca Durabolin, Anavar, Testosterone, Dianabol, Equipoise, and Winstrol.
(12) Half of our subjects perceived a trial as unethical when equipoise was disturbed beyond 70:30.
(13) I suggest an alternative concept of equipoise, which would be based on present or imminent controversy in the clinical community over the preferred treatment.
(14) Image: Liz McBurney for the Guardian Crozier and Goldberger's studies help to answer a question that many coffee drinkers have asked: why is it that on some days one cup of coffee puts you in absolute equipoise – brilliant but steady, relaxed but energetic – while other days it is not even enough to prop open your eyelids?
(15) When equipoise is disturbed beyond 80:20, less than 3 per cent of subjects would consider human trials morally justifiable.
(16) Confirmatory evidence of boldenone sulfate in equine urine was obtained from 2 h to 42 days following a therapeutic intramuscular dose of Equipoise.
(17) Methods for screening by thin-layer chromatography, quantification by high-performance liquid chromatography with ultraviolet detection and confirmation by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry of boldenone sulfate in equine urine after administration of boldenone undecylenate (Equipoise) are presented.
(18) Fifteen patients involving twenty-two Equipoise clasps were followed up for retention, aesthetics and oral health.
(19) We conducted an ethometric study to find out how much collective equipoise can be disturbed before the potential subjects in a trial think that it is unethical.