counterweightnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkaʊn.tə.weɪt/us/ˈkaʊn.t̬ɚ.weɪt/a weight that is as heavy as something else, so that the two objects can balance
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Balance and imbalance
- accord
- accord with sth
- align
- alignment
- balance (sth) out/up
- balance of power
- balanced
- harmonize
- harmony
- imbalance
- jar
- jarring
- offset
- on an even keel idiom
- one man's loss is another man's gain idiom
- realign
- square (sth) with sth
- strike a balance idiom
- symmetry
- wash
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Examples from literature
- He also showed a "disappearing" gun in an earthwork, the gun recoiling below the level of the parapet and being run up to a firing position by a counterweight.
- The counterweight being suitably adjusted, the lever falls when the thread has become fine enough to need another cocoon.
- Their boats are very narrow, and have only a counterweight at the opposite end, where they carry their sail.
- This overcame the atmospheric pressure on the piston from above and allowed the piston to rise by a counterweight on the rod over and connecting to the pump.
- Yet Sir Gregory delivered it with an incisive gusto, desperately countersigning his own death warrant.