(v. t.) To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.
(n.) A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another
(n.) 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
(n.) A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stations such as al-Jazeera English have been welcomed as a counterbalance to Western media parochialism.
(2) To counterbalance integration against the threat of riots is basically the Tebbit test without the sport.
(3) Dose dependency of disposition and absorption counterbalance each other in the usual dose range.
(4) This study suggests that the changes in cholesterol metabolism after jejunoileostomy are dependent on the length of functioning jejunum and ileum in such a way that the effects of the two segments counterbalance each other.
(5) A large turn-out of Democratic supporters is needed in working-class cities in the north of Ohio to counterbalance Republican support in the largely rural areas to the south.
(6) In contrast, AVP sensitizes the sympathetic control of the mesenteric vascular bed to counterbalance its potent local vasoconstrictor effects.
(7) The results show that the ability to support survival of primary cultured hepatocytes is not a common property of liver-tumor-promoter barbiturates but is a common property of some barbiturates with high lipophilicity, and that the maintenance of hepatocytes by phenobarbital or amobarbital is not due to a counterbalance of stimulated proliferation and death of the cells.
(8) It is also, still, an important counterbalance to the power of BBC television, above all BBC1.
(9) Ahmadinejad's address to heads of state at the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), in Kazakhstan could deepen suspicions that the bloc is intended as a counterbalance to US influence across the region.
(10) Inhibition of VPA beta-oxidation by salicylate was sufficient to counterbalance the increased elimination of VPA as its conjugates and explains why total clearance of VPA after salicylate remains unchanged even though the free fraction of VPA is increased.
(11) The major effects of ADH on urinary acidification serve at least to counterbalance disturbing consequences on urinary ammonia excretion of physiological variations in the urinary flow rate.
(12) Quantitation of the contribution of each kidney, by means of a 99mTc-DTPA scan, showed that the glomerular filtration rate of the native kidneys had decreased to counterbalance the added function.
(13) It is known that the halophilic green alga Dunaliella tertiolecta grows under hypertonic conditions (with NaCl), which induce the intracellular accumulation of high concentrations of glycerol in order to counterbalance the osmotic change.
(14) Those behind the deal said they hoped to use the SCMP to paint a more positive picture of China and provide a counterbalance to the western media’s “too ideological and biased” coverage.
(15) The importance of the Bainbridge reflex as a counterbalance to the baroreceptor reflex is discussed.
(16) For both reactions the activation enthalpies and entropies change markedly with menaquinone chain length but counterbalance each other, resulting in activation free energies at ambient temperature independent of the menaquinone tail.
(17) It is suggested that K+ elevation counterbalance both PRA decrease and ANF increase to be responsible for the absence of change in plasma ALD during beta-blockade.
(18) Turn Britain's regions into subsidiaries of London, raze its business and political elites, and you have hardly any counterbalance to the might of the City.
(19) Simultaneous hemodilution with hydroxyethyl starch can counterbalance the already existing changes.
(20) However, the animals consistently retained sodium, and the high plasma levels of ANF were unable to counterbalance the sodium-retaining actions of DOCA.
Counterpoise
Definition:
(v. t.) To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.
(v. t.) To act against with equal power; to balance.
(n.) A weight sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight.
(n.) An equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force.
(n.) The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium; equiponderance.
Example Sentences:
(1) And it mirrors a broader crossroads in international relations, with continuing economic malaise in the west being counterpoised with an increasingly rapid shift of power to emerging economies.
(2) The counterpoise of body weight and eventual exceeding of Czech children theirs Slovak contemporaries can be possible originates with improve nutritional conditions of the Slovak populations in the antecendent periods after the Second World War.
(3) The wild sex comedy of Portnoy's Complaint is counterpoised with some of the most heartfelt and convincing portrayals of childhood and youth in modern literature: it is these startling contrasts between deep nostalgic emotion and the urge to rebel that make the book so explosively funny and rewarding.
(4) Sceptical reason therefore requires a "counterpoise", in the form of "the more solid and more natural arguments derived from the senses and experience."
(5) The present report pertains to a new technique based on similar principle, utilising induced electromagnetic force as a means of counterpoising in study of contractility of isolated, frog heart.
(6) Photographic analysis in five cases showed defects not only of the tilting reactions, which are of labyrinthine origin, but also of certain other postural reactions, notably the counterpoising and protective stepping reactions.
(7) This pattern of response is consistent with the counterpoised actions of two distinct cell populations, an autoaggressive population and a lower frequency autosuppressor population.
(8) A stationary state is reached when flocculence (tendency to flocculate) is counterpoised by agitation.
(9) A hitherto unmentioned aspect of this drive is the yearning for nonexistence, a shadow-like counterpoise to life, expressed by two analysands.