(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.
Counterweight
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Capitalism carries disequilibrium within itself and there is only one counterweight: politics.
(2) Nevertheless, the buoyancy-mass relationship revealed that they maintain the same degree of positive buoyancy (approximately 10% above the neutral level) at surface as do Korean women divers who adjust counterweights.
(3) Lacan's more structural approach to the inner world provides an important counterweight to Kohut's narrow preoccupation with the two-person field, while Kohut's concept of maternal mirroring lends a humane dimension to the icy realms of Lacan's intellectual structures.
(4) At the same time, they have to hope that they still have appeal to some moderate, centrist voters as a counterweight and restraint on the red tribe to their left and the blue brigade on their right.
(5) And with its credo to keep the state small and its belief in the power of the individual, it is – certainly for Berlin – a reliable counterweight to the French.” Despite all the warm words Merkel and Cameron will say about each other following their lunchtime encounter, the Rhein Zeitung from Koblenz warns Cameron in an editorial that he is going to be “taught a lesson” in Berlin.
(6) Development of a prone-position cockpit with a counterweighted, forward-looking head support plus optical-electronically aided all-directional visibility is the most physiologic, safest, and surest way to achieve this goal.
(7) President George Bush saw India as a potential counterweight to China and backed a controversial civil nuclear agreement with Delhi.
(8) Since then, he has found himself lauded as the more earthy counterweight to his mentor and writing partner Abbas Kiarostami.He plays quiet Georges Braque to his friend's more high-profile Picasso.
(9) Scotland would be a counterweight to London's huge, overbearing influence over the British economy.
(10) Trump’s lack of concise policy on China has led governments in south-east Asia to wonder if they should still look the US as a counterweight to Beijing if he wins and abandons the “pivot” policy.
(11) The practice is a counterweight to the jagged peaks and valleys of the human experience.
(12) According to Dr Claudia Neusüss of Berlin's Humboldt University, one reason for the book's German success is its role as a 'counterweight' to TV shows such as Germany's Next Top Model, hosted by supermodel Heidi Klum.
(13) Vehicles would climb out of the gravity well along a cable anchored to the equator and held under tension by centrifugal force on a counterweight tens of thousands of kilometers high.
(14) He has been a counterweight to Steve Hilton, Cameron's more visionary director of strategy, and architect of the "big society".
(15) In both cases, adaptation is associated with receptor modification that acts as a counterweight to changed external conditions.
(16) This document is a counterweight to claims that Hamas is an irrational, fanatical and bloodthirsty group intent on murdering all Jews.
(17) And what of the countries who supported Habré because they regarded him as a counterweight to Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi?
(18) "This is softer than expected and, while by no means dashing hopes of a return to positive growth in Q4, cautions against expecting much in the way of near-term impetus from the production sector – this as limited demand at home provides a counterweight to the pick-up in external orders being underwritten by the weakness of the pound," said Richard McGuire at RBC Capital Markets.
(19) (I say they, not we, because the Guardian is always a puny counterweight to these massed ranks on the right).
(20) The EC document also challenges Universal's claim that piracy will act as a counter measure to stop any one player controlling the digital music market, and that internet giants such as Apple, Amazon and Spotify have enough power to act as a counterweight to a music company of the enlarged group's size.