counterweight's Usage Examples:

counterweight bar, even empty, is not designed to sustain a potentially large force.

counterweights needed to be removed first.

Based on current evidence, says the Commission, regional wholesalers would appear unable to provide a sufficient competitive counterweight to such a duopoly.

The bascules rotate through an angle of 82°, and their rear ends in the bascule chambers of the piers carry 365 tons of counterweight, the total weight of each being 1070 tons.

The Empire was the counterweight to the local tyrannies into which the local authorities established by the Empire itself, the feudal powers, judicial and military, necessary for the purposes of government, invariably tended to degenerate.

counterweight system.

Turkey acts as a buffer against potential Russian expansionism, and as a counterweight to rogue states such as Iraq, Iran and Syria.

This is an important counterweight to some unjustified perceptions that the whole system is failing to function.

- The bridge with its platform is suspended from girders above by chains and counterweights at the four corners (fig.

It is raised by chains and counterweights.

The stage right wall now has 55 single purchase counterweight sets and the winch gallery stage left has 12 electric winches with pendant controls.

Synonyms:

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

Antonyms:

natural object, heaviness, light, heavy, lightness,