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Counterbalance
Counterbalance Coun`ter*bal"ance (-b?l"ans), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Counterbalanced (-anst); p. pr. & vb. n. Counterbalancing.] To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance. The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder. --Boyle. The cstudy of mind is necessary to counterbalance and correct the influence of the study of nature. --Sir W. Hamilton.
Counterbalance
Counterbalance Coun"ter*bal`ance (koun"t?r-b?l`ans), n. A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another; as: (a) 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. (b) A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam. Money is the counterbalance to all other things purchasable by it. --Locke.

Meaning of Counterbalances from wikipedia

- Elevator In traction (non-hydraulic) elevators, a heavy counterweight counterbalances the load of the elevator carriage, so the motor lifts much less of...
- 2021, he and his friend Hayden Schlossberg, along with Josh Heald via Counterbalance Entertainment has signed a deal with Sony Pictures Television. Hayden...
- The Queen Anne Counterbalance was a funicular streetcar line operated by the Seattle Electric Company, serving the steep slope along its namesake street...
- Counterbalance Park is a small 12,000 sq ft (1,100 m2) muni****l park in Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington. Located at 700 Queen Anne Ave N. (northeast...
- sides to allow the diver to climb the ladder while wearing swimfins. Counterbalanced ladder, a fixed ladder with a lower sliding part. A system of counterweights...
- The Fillmore Counterbalance was a streetcar device operated by the Market Street Railway (MSRy) in San Francisco. It aided the company's 22 Fillmore line...
- of a watercraft. On some sailboats, it may have a hydrodynamic and counterbalancing purpose as well. The laying of the keel is often the initial step in...
- of a major Shia sect; it could even be used at some later stage to counterbalance the influence of the Ottoman Caliph, the head of Islam as recognized...
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