Counterbalancing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Counterbalancing is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of counterbalance.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of counterbalance.
More Meanings
- The act by which something is counterbalanced.
Example Sentences
"The ability of these large locomotives to run at such high speeds without pounding themselves to pieces", my correspondent concludes, "is a tribute to the vast improvement in the counterbalancing of American locomotives since a day in October, 1904, when one pair of the driving wheels of a Baldwin Atlantic type balanced compound lifted off the supported wheel of the St. Louis testing-plant when exerting no more than 320 h.p.
Word Forms
- counterbalancings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include counterpoise, offset, equalizer, equipoise, balance, equilibrium.
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