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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʊntə(ɹ)ˌpɔɪz/

名詞

counterpoise (複数形 counterpoises)

1. A weight sufficient to balance another, for example in the opposite end of scales; an equal weight.
2. An effect of equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force or influence
   • 1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 1, page 200:

     This necessary counterpoise, the affectionate and simple-minded will readily conceive, would arise to Louisa from the absence of those "dear familiar faces" which had hitherto constituted her world.

3. The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium

   Synonym: equiponderance

動詞

counterpoise (三人称単数 現在形 counterpoises, 現在分詞 counterpoising, 過去形および過去分詞形 counterpoised)

1. To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.
   • 1655, Kenelm Digby, Two Treaties

     Weights, counterpoising one another.

2. To act against with equal power; to balance.
   • 1633, Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande  […], Dublin: […] Sir James Ware; reprinted as A View of the State of Ireland […], Dublin: […] the Society of Stationers, […] Hibernian Press,  […] By John Morrison, 1809:

     So many freeholders of English […] will be able to beard, and to counterpoise the rest.