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CounterbalanceCounterbalance 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
- The
Queen Anne
Counterbalance was a
funicular streetcar line
operated by the
Seattle Electric Company,
serving the
steep slope along its
namesake street...
- 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...
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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
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- of an
automatic or semi-automatic
weapon A
device that
offsets or
counterbalances a
destabilising factor: See
Buoyancy compensator (diving) Buoyancy...
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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...
- or ****emblies for
local issues,
there has been
debate about how to
counterbalance this in England.
Originally it was
planned that
various regions of England...
-
reaction force) is
exerted by the
ground upward on the
person that
counterbalances his
weight that is
directed downward.: ch.12 Newton's contribution...
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qualify as 'open content'.
Although open
content has been
described as a
counterbalance to copyright, open
content licenses rely on a
copyright holder's power...
- on 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...