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Counterpoise
Counterpoise meaning
A weight sufficient to balance another, for example in the opposite end of scales; an equal weight. | An effect of equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force or influence | The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium
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Example sentences (9)
The acknowledgement by banker Chika Mbonu that the naira got weaker than the currency of many African countries has a counterpoise in the World Bank’s converse report that the Kenyan shilling got stronger by more than 21 per cent during the same period.
It is sometimes called a counterweight trebuchet or counterpoise trebuchet, to distinguish it from an earlier weapon called the traction trebuchet, where men pulling ropes provided the power.
Sometimes a counterpoise is used as a ground plane, supported above the ground.
The National Association of Evangelicals formed in 1942 as a counterpoise to the mainline Federal Council of Churches.
The northern will be glad to find a counterpoise in Vermont.
The opposing concepts in the upper hands show the counterpoise of creation and destruction or the fire of life.
The people of Rhegium planted here the exiles from Naxos and Catana in 395 BC as a counterpoise to Dionysius the Elder 's foundation of Tyndaris ; but Dionysius soon took it.
Trebuchets came in two different designs: Traction, which were powered by people, or Counterpoise, where the people were replaced with “a weight on the short end”.
Wynn 1997, p. 321. The bulk of the equipment was carried in a large extended tail cone, and a flat ECM aerial counterpoise plate mounted between the starboard tailpipes.