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Another word for unbalanced

Modifier

  1. Deranged

    2. See also:

    troubled

    insane

  2. Unwise

    3. See also:

    unreliable

    rash

  3. Unsteady

    4. See also:

    unstable

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Sentence Examples

  • is the unbalanced effort required.

  • His discontent found vent in the passionate, unbalanced lyrics of this period.

  • The unbalanced masses of a locomotive may be divided into two parts, namely, masses which revolve, as the crank-pins, the crank-cheeks, the couplingrods, &c.; and masses which reciprocate, made up of the piston, piston-rod, cross-head and a certain proportion of the connecting-rod.

  • When a weight is reciprocated, the equal and opposite force required for its acceleration at any instant appears as an unbalanced force on the frame of the machine to which the weight belongs.

  • If the centre of gravity of a pulley is on the axis of rotation, and the whole mass is distributed so that the axis of inertia coincides with the axis of rotation, there can be no unbalanced force or unbalanced couple as the pulley revolves.

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