(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.
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.