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Counterweight meaning
A heavy mass of often iron or concrete, mechanically linked in opposition to a load which is to be raised and lowered, with the intent of reducing the amount of work which must be done to effect the raising and lowering. Counterweights are used, for example, in cable-hauled elevators and some kinds of movable bridges (e.g. a bascule bridge). | A counterbalance.
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The counterweight is held down by the cable while the cable is held up and taut by the counterweight.
Additionally, the ability to load the traction trebuchet with some less-than-conventional objects marked it with a versatility that its counterweight cousin doesn't possess.
Analysts said the bloc was seeking to turn itself into a counterweight to the West in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
But as the rifts between China, Russia and the United States deepen, the bloc has been increasingly looking to act as a counterweight to the West.
Funded largely by private donors, CU Boulder’s Bruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization bills itself as a conservative counterweight that “promotes academic freedom and intellectual diversity” on an otherwise liberal campus.
It’s rapid descent was stopped by the conveyance counterweight becoming trapped by the jack catches.
The Brics countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — are seen as a counterweight to the Western-led world and world news was abuzz after the announcement of the Brics +6.
The counterweight trebuchet was equipped with a windlass, an apparatus which was required neither for traction nor hybrid trebuchets to launch missiles.
The first lady will visit Namibia and Kenya this week as part of a push by the United States to step up engagement with Africa as a counterweight to China's influence on the continent, the White House announced Tuesday.
The Polish-Ukrainian Union would become the second-largest country in the EU and arguably its largest military power, providing more than an adequate counterweight to the Franco-German tandem—something that the EU is sorely missing after Brexit.
A consummated deal would deepen relations between our two countries, strengthening the counterweight to China.
Alfa-class submarines were meant to be a counterweight to NATO’s various fast-attack subs, notably the ubiquitous Los Angeles-class submarines.
Because the excellent performance of most companies over the past month and a half formed a strong counterweight to the more worrying macro environment.
He will later start greeting the leaders of Australia, India and Japan - the so-called Quad - at his home in Wilmington, Delaware in a farewell to the alliance he has promoted as a counterweight to China.
In the 10 years of Mr Modi’s rule, India has sought closer relations with the US, which in turn has seen it as a counterweight to a rising China.
Its steering sets into curves and corners delicately, with very little counterweight but with precise ease.
This is perhaps best indicated by his strong advocacy of the Quad, the grouping of the U.S., Japan, Australia and India, which has an increasing role as a counterweight to China.
This was the case with Hamas, which the Israeli occupation authorities in Gaza were only too happy to encourage in the beginning as a counterweight to the PLO.
Hunter Biden has been the counterweight to demands for John Bolton’s testimony, as well as Mick Mulvaney’s.
It’s a remarkable development for the fundraising powerhouse, which has long served as a political counterweight to South Bay Labor.