Counterpoise Synonyms

kountər-poiz
A stable state characterized by the cancellation of all forces by equal opposing forces
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. balance
  2. counterweight
  3. equilibrium
  4. ballast
  5. compensation
  6. counteraction
  7. equipoise
  8. counterbalance
  9. equalization
  10. stasis
  11. offset
  12. stabilization
  13. equalizer
  14. equaliser
To act as an equalizing weight or force to
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. balance
  2. compensate
  3. counteract
  4. counterbalance
  5. countervail
  6. make up
  7. offset
  8. set off

Counterpoise Sentence Examples

  • The weight of the handles and their supports is balanced by the counterpoise z.

  • It was partly in order to counterpoise the power of archdeacons that bishops created officials (Fournier, p. 8).

  • From that time Russia gravitated slowly towards an alliance with France, and sought to create a counterpoise against the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria and Italy.

  • The counterpoise w balances the head about its axis of rotation.

  • The fruit of his policy, which made of Rome a counterpoise against the effete empire of the Greeks upon the one hand and against the pressure of the feudal kingdom on the other, was seen in the succeeding century.

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