(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.
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.