counterpoise's Usage Examples:

In his brother Wladislaus, who as king of Hungary and Bohemia possessed a dominant influence in Central Europe, he found a counterpoise to the machinations of the emperor Maximilian, who in 1492 had concluded an alliance against him with Ivan III.

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

The telescope is counterpoised by a weight attached to the opposite end of the declination axis.

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

But what about a reasoned belief based on a balanced look at both history and current reality that leads you to be optimistic?The weight of the handles and their supports is balanced by the counterpoise z.

By the alliance with the imperialist lackey Maxton or with the centrist preacher Fenner Brockway or with the Freemason friends?The democratic opposition that the West likes, the respectable centrist opposition, will not counterpoise itself to the Nationalists.

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.

A counterpoise was placed on the solenoid end of the balance beam to act against the attraction of the solenoid, the position of the counterpoise determining the length of the arc in the crucible.

was his alliance with the German Evangelical princes, as a counterpoise to the persistent hostility of Charles V.

The principles of this and the preceding section are those which regulate the adjustment of the weight and position of the counterpoises which are placed between the spokes of the driving-wheels of locomotive engines.

This second intervention gave umbrage to France, who by way of a counterpoise sent a force to occupy Ancona.

(C) The declination axis is mounted on the prolongation of the upper pivot of the polar axis; the telescope is placed at one end of the declination axis and counterpoised by a weight at the other end.

Synonyms:

balance, sash weight, equaliser, equalizer, counterweight, tare, counterbalance, weight,

Antonyms:

lightness, heavy, light, heaviness, natural object,