What's the difference between counterpoise and equiponderance?
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.
Equiponderance
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Equiponderancy
Example Sentences:
(1) The phenomenon of a hundredfold more rapid blood clearance of biotinylated immunoglobulins after post-injection of an equiponderate dose of avidin is described.
(2) After equiponderant radionuclide ventriculography the parametric images (phasic and amplitude) of heart function were estimated in 20 patients with dilated cardiomyopathy and in 17 patients with coronary heart disease associated with cardiomegaly.